5 and 6, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
5 and 6, Old Elvet
- WRENN ID
- stony-cinder-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5 and 6, Old Elvet, City of Durham, DH1 3HL
- OS grid reference
- NZ 276 423
- Coordinates
- 54.77535, -1.57145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two houses, dating from the mid to late 18th century. They are built of dull red brick with a tooled stone plinth, and have Welsh slate roofs and brick stacks. Number 6 is slightly taller than Number 5, with each house originally featuring one or two bays. Horizontal bands run across the facades of the houses. Both have 6-panel doors with overlights set within wood architraves, topped by bracketed cornice hoods. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, set into stuccoed reveals with stone sills. The first-floor window of Number 5 is tripartite. A large oriel window, inserted in the late 19th century, has replaced the original first-floor windows of Number 6. The stack for Number 5 is placed behind the roof ridge, while the stack for Number 6 is at the right end of the building.
Local climate
5 and 6, Old Elvet 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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