Dryburn House (Dryburn Hospital Doctors' Residence)

Dryburn House, now serving as the Doctors' Residence for Dryburn Hospital, is an early 19th-century house built for W.L. Wharton, the sheriff of Durham. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone, featuring an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof and rendered chimneys. It stands two storeys high with five bays, where the central three bays project slightly in a shallow bow. The windows are sash style, some with glazing bars, and have projecting stone lintels and sills, along with a first-floor band and a deep gutter cornice. The low-pitched hipped roof consists of three ranges that are linked at the right end, with chimneys located on the rear of the front ridge and on the rear ridge. The right side of the building features a Tuscan tetrastyle porte-cochere, which has a half-glazed door with chamfered alternate-block jambs and voussoirs, along with a similar window surround above.