The Grove (Durham School Bursar's Office and Common Room) is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House.
The Grove (Durham School Bursar's Office and Common Room)
- WRENN ID
- cold-chamber-ebony
- 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
- The Grove (Durham School Bursar's Office and Common Room), Quarryheads Lane, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 269 419
- Coordinates
- 54.77215, -1.58241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grove, which serves as the Bursar's office and Common Room for Durham School, is a house that dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring a rear wing made of rubble below and brick above. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and has flat stone gable copings, with a fishscale pattern on the rear wing and brick chimneys.
The building has two storeys and three bays. The central door, which has been renewed, is set in a 19th-century gabled porch that features a surround made of chamfered keyed voussoirs and alternate-block jambs. The first-floor windows have similar surrounds with projecting stone sills, and all windows are sashes, two of which have glazing bars. The ground floor has projecting square bays that have been inserted. The roof displays moulded kneelers and three ridge chimneys, while the rear wing has a steeply-pitched roof.
Historically, this building was the home of the actor Stephen Kemble in the early 19th century.
Local climate
The Grove (Durham School Bursar's Office and Common Room) 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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