5, Office Square is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Manor house.
5, Office Square
- WRENN ID
- scattered-lintel-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- 5, Office Square, Staindrop, DL2 3NG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 128 205
- Coordinates
- 54.5801, -1.80221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Office Square is a manor house that was once three separate dwellings but has now been united. It dates from the 17th century and is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and irregular quoins. The roof is stone-flagged, featuring stone gable copings and a ridge. The building has two storeys and five bays, with the second bay projecting under a gable.
The entrance features a partly-glazed, renewed panelled door set in a chamfered flat-Tudor-arched surround with block jambs, located in the fourth bay. On either side of the door are sash windows with glazing bars; the left window is in a plain stone surround, while the right window is set under an inserted flat stone lintel. There are also plain stone surrounds for two-light casements and small paired chamfered fixed lights positioned high in the gabled projection. A wide re-used lintel with a hole for an iron bar is located below one of the windows, and there is a small blocked opening on the first floor between the third and fourth bays.
The quoins and the change in character of the rubble suggest that the rightmost first-floor bay is an addition, after which the eaves of the three right bays were raised. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
5, Office Square receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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