St Chad's College St Chad's College Lightfoot House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. Institutional, residential. 2 related planning applications.

St Chad's College St Chad's College Lightfoot House

WRENN ID
drifting-fireplace-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1952
Type
Institutional, residential
Address
St Chad's College St Chad's College Lightfoot House, 19 (North), North Bailey, City of Durham, DH1 3RH
OS grid reference
NZ 274 421
Coordinates
54.77311, -1.57482
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St. Chad's College, specifically Lightfoot House, is a house that has been converted into a college. It dates from the early 18th century and was raised in the 19th century. The exterior features painted incised stucco with a painted ashlar plinth and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof and red brick chimneys. The building stands three storeys high with attics and has three windows. There are two internal steps leading up to a six-panel door on the left, which is framed by an architrave under a deep hood. The ground floor has two sashes with glazing bars, which have projecting stone sills, while each upper floor features three late 19th-century sashes. The roof includes two bargeboarded gabled dormers with finials, and there is a boot-scraper recess beside the door, along with two cellar chutes that have iron grilles.

Inside, the building has an open-string staircase on the lower flights, which is closed above. The staircase features a ramped grip handrail supported by vase-and-column balusters and a pulvinated string. The lower dog-leg flights have carved tread ends, and the well above is open. The newels of the staircase are adorned with moulded pendants, and there is a ramped dado rail.

Local climate

St Chad's College St Chad's College Lightfoot House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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