Doric House is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
Doric House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-rafter-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Doric House, 37 and 37a, Tubwell Row, DL1 1PE
- OS grid reference
- NZ 289 144
- Coordinates
- 54.52476, -1.55402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Doric House is an iron-framed commercial building constructed in 1860, featuring three storeys and an attic. The facade includes four windows, arranged as one wide three-window section and a narrow bay. The high slated mansard roof is adorned with four round-headed dormers and has end and ridge stacks. The building is faced with dark red brick, and a prominent two-storey oriel projection on cast iron brackets dominates the front. This projection has rows of six lights framed by cast iron columns, with ornamental cast iron panels between them and between the floors. The first-floor windows are round-headed and topped with a guilloche patterned frieze. To the right, there is a smaller triangular oriel on the second floor, which is canted below and has a canted cast iron openwork hood above the door. The shop windows are framed by similar openwork resting on slim columns. The roof features cast iron cresting, and a plaque on the first floor identifies the building as a unique example of cast iron structure in Darlington.
Local climate
Doric House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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