The Grey Tower is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Grey Tower
- WRENN ID
- narrow-corridor-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Grey Tower, North Road, City of Durham, DH1 4RR
- OS grid reference
- NZ 267 429
- Coordinates
- 54.78112, -1.58498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grey Tower is a house, possibly a lodge, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, and may include parts of an earlier building. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with an ashlar plinth and dressings, and has an L-shaped plan. The building has three storeys and two bays.
On the north elevation, there is an entrance tower set back to the right, featuring a partly-glazed ledged boarded door with a two-centred arched head in a double-chamfered surround, topped with a dripmould. Above the door, there are slit windows on each floor, with the first-floor window blocked. The elevation is capped with a corbelled battlemented parapet. The left two bays contain 2-light casements with flat stone lintels and flat stone sills, also under a projecting battlemented parapet. To the left, there is a one-storey, one-bay extension that has an inserted bow window.
The south elevation features label moulds over the 2-light casements and a flat-coped parapet.
Local climate
The Grey Tower 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- 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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