Abbey View is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Abbey View
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-plaster-ebony
- 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
- Abbey View, 42, South Street, City of Durham, DH1 4QP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 270 421
- Coordinates
- 54.77391, -1.58045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey View is a house dating from 1929, designed by W.Y. Jones for T.H. Burbridge. It is constructed with a timber frame and rendered infill, topped with a roof of French tiles and a pebble-dash rendered chimney. The house is built in a vernacular revival style, arranged over three storeys and an attic, with two bays. The right bay is timber-framed and set under a returned gable. The ground floor of this bay is set back at an acute angle to the building line. A Jacobean-style door is situated on the right, featuring a small round light within a carved sun motif, all within a chamfered surround with tongue stops. Above the door is a full-width three-light casement window with opening transom lights, all beneath a moulded bressumer supporting a jettied first floor. Shaped wood brackets support a two-storey oriel, flanked by two-light windows on the first floor, with large diagonal braces above. Further shaped wood brackets support the attic storey, which features a blind quatrefoil below a two-light window. The left bay is plainer, containing a three-light casement on the ground floor, and two-light windows on the upper floors. These windows have painted projecting sills and dripmould lintels with lead glazing. A square-headed two-light dormer is also present. A massive base forms the left end chimney. High-quality wrought-iron work is visible, including strap hinges. A boot-scraper is situated in the angle formed with the house on the right, and a rainwater head is also present.
Local climate
Abbey View 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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