Conduit House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. Conduit house.
Conduit House
- WRENN ID
- stony-terrace-twilight
- 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
- Conduit house
- Address
- Conduit House, the College, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 272 420
- Coordinates
- 54.77236, -1.57731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Conduit House is a conduit house built around 1750, constructed from sandstone ashlar in the Gothic revival style. The building is octagonal in shape and features a tower with buttresses, decorative panels, and a corbelled parapet. On the west side, there is a door with a two-centred arch, while the east side has two cusped lights beneath a two-centred arch with a quatrefoil-pierced tympanum. The north side includes an oeil-de-boeuf window with patterned glazing, and similar lights can be found on the south side and above the door. The angle buttresses have offsets and are adorned with carved heads where they meet the parapet, which is topped with triple-moulded coping.
Local climate
Conduit House 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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