No. 1 (Merrydale Rest Home), No. 2 (Banks House) and Nos. 3 to 12 Bank Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. Terrace. 8 related planning applications.
No. 1 (Merrydale Rest Home), No. 2 (Banks House) and Nos. 3 to 12 Bank Terrace
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-footing-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Stockton West MP: Matt Vickers (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1987
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- No. 1 (Merrydale Rest Home), No. 2 (Banks House) and Nos. 3 to 12 Bank Terrace, Hurworth, DL2 2DE
- OS grid reference
- NZ 293 098
- Coordinates
- 54.48319, -1.549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A terrace of twelve houses built around 1840, situated in Hurworth Place, Hurworth, and known as No. 1 (Merrydale Rest Home), No. 2 (Banks House), and Nos. 3 to 12 Bank Terrace. The houses are constructed of brick in an English garden wall bond, with four bricks long and one brick wide, except for No. 10, which is rendered. Stone dressings are painted, and the roofs are covered with Welsh slate, featuring cream brick chimney stacks. The terrace forms an "L" shape: the south arm contains Nos. 1 to 5 and the east arm contains Nos. 6 to 12.
The architecture is Classical in style and the houses are two storeys high with basements. Each house has two or three bays, with No. 10 having four bays. The basement is projecting and has a decorative band around the top. A sill band runs along the first floor, and the eaves have a band with cream brick dentils. The basement windows are 9-pane sashes. There are five to seven stone steps, with cast-iron railings, leading to four-panel doors with overlights in wooden doorcases. The first-floor windows are four-pane sashes with wedge lintels and projecting sills. Some railings, doors and windows have been replaced over time. A stone plaque on No. 6 is inscribed "BANKS TERRACE." The terrace has separate roofs with stone-coped gable ends, along with transverse end and ridge stacks. Projecting stair wings are located at the rear of each house. Some original cast-iron area railings remain. A late 20th century house on the west return of No. 1 is not considered to be of architectural significance.
Local climate
No. 1 (Merrydale Rest Home), No. 2 (Banks House) and Nos. 3 to 12 Bank Terrace receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 10 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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