1 2, Durham Road is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 June 1986. Cottage.
1 2, Durham Road
- WRENN ID
- calm-dormer-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1 2, Durham Road, Brancepeth
- OS grid reference
- NZ 222 380
- Coordinates
- 54.73687, -1.65562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a pair of estate cottages located at 1 and 2 Durham Road, built in the mid-19th century for the Brancepeth Estate. The cottages are constructed from squared sandstone in narrow courses, featuring ashlar dressings and a fishscale Welsh slate roof. They are designed in a Tudor style and consist of one storey plus an attic. Each cottage has two bays, with No. 1 on the left.
The buildings have flush quoins and a chamfered plinth. They feature end vertical-panelled doors with narrow overlights, set in chamfered surrounds beneath hoodmoulds. The windows are stone-mullioned, with No. 1 showcasing a square bay window with three lights under a hipped roof on the ground floor, along with a gabled dormer that has a two-light window under a hoodmould. No. 2 has a wide projecting gabled left bay that includes a canted bay window under a hipped roof on the ground floor and a two-light window under a hoodmould above.
Additional architectural details include stone eaves brackets, a steeply-pitched roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers, and a central transverse chimney with a cornice and three diagonal stacks. There is a 1986 addition at the rear of No. 1 that is not of interest. Nos. 1 and 2 are designed to form a symmetrical pair with Nos. 3 and 4 nearby.
Local climate
1 2, Durham Road receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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