22, North Bailey is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.

22, North Bailey

WRENN ID
turning-chancel-ivory
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
House
Address
22, North Bailey, City of Durham, DH1 3EW
OS grid reference
NZ 274 420
Coordinates
54.77286, -1.5749
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 22 North Bailey is a late 18th-century building that originally comprised two houses and is now used as a hall of residence. It features painted incised stucco with a painted ashlar plinth and dressings, and a rainwater head dated 1796 with the initials SC. The building stands three storeys tall and has six bays.

The entrance on the left is a four-panelled door with a patterned overlight, set within a Jacobean-style doorcase that has a cornice. The fourth bay contains a six-panel door with a patterned overlight, also in an architrave with a cornice. The sixth bay has a plainer door with flat panels and a leaded overlight. There is a blocked door in the second bay, and a sash window has been inserted. The fenestration is irregular, featuring sash windows, including one tripartite window with glazing bars, while some bays are blank. The top of the building is finished with a cornice and blocking course.

Inside, there is a late 17th-century staircase with high grip handrails on skittle balusters, although the lower flight of the staircase in the second house on the right has been renewed.

Local climate

22, North Bailey 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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