Durham Prison Officer's Club (The Tithe Barn) is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1970. A Medieval Barn.
Durham Prison Officer's Club (The Tithe Barn)
- WRENN ID
- woven-sandstone-elm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1970
- Type
- Barn
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Durham Prison Officer's Club (The Tithe Barn), Hallgarth Street, City of Durham, DH1 3AT
- OS grid reference
- NZ 278 419
- Coordinates
- 54.77193, -1.56881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Durham Prison Officer's Club, also known as The Tithe Barn, is a medieval barn that is now part of a club. It is associated with the Durham Priory farm. The building features a ground floor made of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, some of which have been renewed. Above this, there is a partly renewed timber frame with brick nogging. The roof is covered with pantiles and has two rows of stone slates at the eaves.
The structure is two storeys high and consists of two bays. The gable facing the street has an elliptical-arched vehicle entrance, and the upper part is close-studded on a bressumar. On the right side, which is on rising ground, there are steps leading up to a door in the second bay of the close-studded upper floor. There is a window on the left that has an inserted ventilator, and the roof is hipped with bargeboarded gablets.
Inside, the walls are covered with painted plaster. The roof features two top-chamfered, slightly-arched tie beams with arch braces supported by jowled posts, and the scout principals are tenoned into the ties, displaying carpenter's marks. The upper part of the roof has been ceiled over.
Local climate
Durham Prison Officer's Club (The Tithe Barn) 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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