Number 1 and Houses Adjoining in Butts Head, The Butts is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. A C19 House. 2 related planning applications.

Number 1 and Houses Adjoining in Butts Head, The Butts

WRENN ID
grim-gargoyle-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1985
Type
House
OS grid reference
NY 996 391
Coordinates
54.74695, -2.00641
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 1 and the adjoining houses in Butts Head, The Butts, are early 19th-century coachhouses and residences that have been converted into three houses facing Market Place and three more in the left return to The Butts. They are built from coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a stone-flagged roof and ashlar chimneys. The building is arranged in an L-plan and consists of three storeys, except for the two-storey house on the right and a lower two-storey wing on the left.

The Market Place elevation features seven bays, while the left return has six bays, with irregular fenestration throughout. The flat stone lintels above the boarded door and a four-pane overlight are found in the second bay, while glazed doors appear in the fourth and seventh bays. The windows include sashes with glazing bars and late 19th-century sashes, with the second and third bays raised from a catslide and featuring 20th-century windows. A canted bay window with a hipped roof is located in the fifth bay. The two-storey left wing has a pent roof, while the raised part has a flat roof, and the other roofs are low-pitched with chimneys at the right end of each house. The left return includes a central segmental-arched coach entrance, and the left house projects forward with a doorcase featuring pilasters and an entablature above a panelled door and a two-pane overlight in the inner return.

Local climate

Number 1 and Houses Adjoining in Butts Head, The Butts sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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