Holly House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Holly House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-lantern-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holly House, High Street, Witton-Le-Wear, DL14 0AZ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 146 312
- Coordinates
- 54.67577, -1.77403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly House is a house built in the mid-19th century, constructed from sandstone ashlar with a plinth and quoins. It features a graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone ridge tiles and ashlar stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three windows, along with a set-back two-storey one-bay service entrance on the right. The central entrance consists of a half-glazed four-panel door with a two-pane overlight, all framed in a Tuscan stone surround. Above the door is a round-headed sash window with a stone arch, while the outer bays have sashes with wedge stone lintels and glazing bars. All windows are equipped with bracketed sills. The roof is low-pitched and hipped, supported by wide eaves with brackets, and features end and central chimneys with wide coping. The right set-back bay includes a boarded pent porch beneath a blank first floor, a battlemented eaves parapet, and no visible roof, along with a right chimney.
Local climate
Holly House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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