Trafalgar House and Garden Wall Attached to North is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. House, garden wall. 1 related planning application.
Trafalgar House and Garden Wall Attached to North
- WRENN ID
- quiet-rubblework-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- House, garden wall
- Address
- Trafalgar House and Garden Wall Attached to North, DL5 6PU
- OS grid reference
- NZ 252 224
- Coordinates
- 54.59658, -1.61132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Trafalgar House, built around 1815 for Captain William Pryce Cumby, is a two-storey building located on Heighington Lane. The main block is constructed from tooled dressed sandstone, while the rear wing is made of rubble and brick, topped with Welsh slate roofs and brick chimney stacks. The entrance front features three bays with tooled-and-margined quoins, central replaced glazed double doors, and a two-pane overlight set in a raised surround. A Tuscan stone porch with square columns enhances the entrance. The windows have raised tooled surrounds, with elongated 15-pane sashes on the ground floor and 12-pane sashes above. The roof is low-pitched and hipped, with two ridge stacks that have stone top bands. The south front has four bays with identical window arrangements. The long rear wing includes a single-storey outshut on the north side, featuring 12-, 16-, and 20-pane sashes, and also has a low-pitched roof with two ridge stacks topped with octagonal chimney pots.
Attached to the north of the house is a tall flat-coped coursed sandstone wall that runs approximately 30 metres to join the boundary wall. This wall includes a pair of 20th-century sliding doors at the south end and a stepped-down section to the north. The wall is included for its group value. An outbuilding located at the rear of the wall is not of special interest. Trafalgar House was the home of William Pryce Cumby, who was the heroic Commander of The Bellerophon at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Local climate
Trafalgar House and Garden Wall Attached to North receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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