Pretoria House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.

Pretoria House

WRENN ID
gaunt-paling-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Pretoria House, Hilton Village, DL2 3JA
OS grid reference
NZ 165 220
Coordinates
54.59296, -1.74518
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Pretoria House is a building that was originally two houses but is now one. It likely dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century and has undergone some alterations. The exterior is rendered and features a 20th-century pantiled roof with brick chimneys. The house has two storeys and six bays. There is a filleted boarded door with a small glazed light located in the second bay. The windows are almost square sashes of late 19th-century style, with slightly projecting stone sills, some of which are very wide. Larger sashes are positioned on either side of the door. The steeply-pitched roof has three ridge chimneys, located at the ends and between the third and fourth bays. At the rear, there is a one-storey six-bay outshut beneath a catslide roof. It has been reported that there are upper crucks in the right two bays, although the roof is currently inaccessible.

Local climate

Pretoria House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
  • 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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