Dryburn House (Dryburn Hospital Doctors' Residence) is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1970. House, hospital. 2 related planning applications.

Dryburn House (Dryburn Hospital Doctors' Residence)

WRENN ID
eternal-terrace-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 February 1970
Type
House, hospital
Address
Dryburn House (Dryburn Hospital Doctors' Residence), North Road, City of Durham, DH1 5TW
OS grid reference
NZ 263 438
Coordinates
54.78895, -1.59202
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

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.

Local climate

Dryburn House (Dryburn Hospital Doctors' Residence) 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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