Old Fleece House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Fleece House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-corridor-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Fleece House, 20b, Front Street, West Auckland, DL14 9HW
- OS grid reference
- NZ 181 263
- Coordinates
- 54.63217, -1.72069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Fleece House is an early 18th-century house that later became part of a public house, and is now a house again. It was altered in the late 18th century. The house is painted render with painted ashlar dressings. The roof is tiled with stone slate eaves and has a brick chimney. It is two storeys high with three windows. At the left, there are paired doors in plain painted surrounds, the right door being an insertion. A half-glazed door on the left is part of the adjacent property at No.20, while No.20B has a five-panel door. A full-height canted bay window on the right has an original low ground floor window with sliding sashes, and a larger upper window with four-pane sashes on the sides and a six-pane at the front. Above the front door is a four-pane sash window with a projecting stone sill. A wheel stair window on the first floor has radiating glazing bars and painted plain stone surround. The brick chimney has tapered square yellow pots.
Local climate
Old Fleece House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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