39 and 40, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
39 and 40, Old Elvet
- WRENN ID
- floating-doorway-burdock
- 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
- House
- Address
- 39 and 40, Old Elvet, City of Durham, DH1 3HN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 278 423
- Coordinates
- 54.77507, -1.56883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 39 and 40 on Old Elvet are two houses built in the mid-18th century. They are constructed from mottled pinkish brick in English garden wall bond and feature a Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Each house has three storeys and an attic, with two bays.
To the left of each house, there is a replaced six-panel door set in an architrave, topped with a bracketed cornice hood. No. 39 includes a low, inserted overlight above its door. The windows are irregularly arranged, featuring sash windows with glazing bars, some of which are tripartite, all set under soldier-course arches. Notably, No. 39 has an early 19th-century first-floor oriel window on the right, while the ground-floor window of No. 40 is an early 20th-century square bay.
The buildings also display four- and three-brick floor bands and have a stepped and dentilled eaves cornice. The high-pitched swept roof includes three inserted flat-headed dormers and two stacks located behind the ridge, with the right stack having been rebuilt.
Local climate
39 and 40, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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