Counts House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. Summer house.
Counts House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-garret-soot
- 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
- Summer house
- Address
- Counts House, the Banks (Left Bank of River Wear), City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 272 417
- Coordinates
- 54.77014, -1.57726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Counts House is a summer house built around 1810. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with an ashlar portico and features a stone-flagged roof. The building is designed in the Greek Doric style and consists of one storey and one bay. The tetrastyle portico includes a dentilled pediment and has flat stone lintels over an empty central door and flanking windows. Inside, there is a stone-flagged floor and a roof supported by king and queen post trusses. The house is named because it was mistakenly thought to be a residence of 'Count' Boruwlaski, a Polish dwarf, who lived in the grounds of a now-demolished house at the end of the 18th century.
Local climate
Counts House 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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