Roslyn House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Roslyn House
- WRENN ID
- buried-rafter-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Roslyn House, Hamsterley, DL13 3QF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 115 310
- Coordinates
- 54.67452, -1.82225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roslyn House is a mid-18th century house with late 19th century alterations. It is constructed of roughly-dressed coursed squared sandstone, featuring quoins and ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with graduated stone flags and has stone ridge and gable copings, along with rendered rubble and painted brick chimneys. The house has two storeys and three wide bays. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door with a plain overlight, all set beneath a flat stone lintel. There is a late 19th century lattice wood porch with a segmental head and a pyramid finial. On either side of the entrance are late 19th century canted bay windows that have bracketed cornices and plain sashes. The first floor features late 19th century sashes, which are set beneath flat stone lintels and sills. The roof has three ridge chimneys: two at the left and right of the second bay, made of rendered rubble with a top string, and one at the right end, rendered in brick. The gable copings are supported on moulded kneelers. At the time of the survey, much of the elevation was obscured by ivy.
Local climate
Roslyn House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% 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 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- 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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