31, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1971. House.
31, Old Elvet
- WRENN ID
- grey-bronze-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 31, Old Elvet, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 279 422
- Coordinates
- 54.77469, -1.5678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 31 Old Elvet is a house dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features incised stucco with a plinth and a Welsh slate roof with a brick chimney. The building has three storeys and two wide bays. An off-centre six-panel door with a patterned overlight is set within a doorcase that has incised pilasters and a bracketed cornice hood. The original sash windows have been replaced. The roof is low-pitched with a chimney located behind the ridge. This property is included for its group value.
Local climate
31, Old Elvet 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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