St John's College is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. College.
St John's College
- WRENN ID
- little-parapet-torch
- 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
- College
- Address
- St John's College, 2, South Bailey, City of Durham, DH1 3RJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 274 419
- Coordinates
- 54.77201, -1.57542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's College is a house that has been converted into a college. It dates from the 17th century, with a front added in the 18th century. The exterior features painted incised stucco and a Welsh slate roof with renewed brick chimneys. The building has three storeys and one bay. On the left side, there is a six-panel door with a patterned overlight, framed by a wooden architrave and topped with a bracketed hood. The ground floor includes a central 16-pane sash window and a small plain square window on the right, with 16-pane sash windows above, all set in plain reveals. There are two chimneys at the ends of the building and a boot-scraper recess next to the door. The interior is reported to have two staircases from around 1670; both are closed-string with square newels. The front staircase is a well stair with a flat handrail, while the rear staircase has only one flight with a high roll handrail.
Local climate
St John's College 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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