Shotton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
Shotton Hall
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-brick-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shotton Hall, Passfield Way, Peterlee
- OS grid reference
- NZ 414 397
- Coordinates
- 54.75092, -1.35709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shotton Hall is a house built in the mid-18th century, with some alterations made in the early 19th century. The exterior features pebble-dashed masonry and chimneys, topped with renewed pantiled roofs. A rear service wing is attached to the right side of the main structure. The entrance front is two stories high and consists of six unevenly-spaced bays, with a low plinth and raised quoins. The third bay has a pedimented doorcase with a pulvinated frieze, which contains an early 19th-century door featuring four vertical panels. The windows are 12-pane sashes with projecting sills and lintels. The hipped roof has slightly-swept eaves and three ridge chimneys.
The left return has five bays, a large plinth, and raised quoins on the right, with mostly 12-pane sash windows. The right return also has five bays and a parapet, with an early 19th-century shallow two-story bow on the left, featuring three elongated 15-pane sashes on each floor, two of which have wrought-iron balconies. There are boarded windows and a slightly-projecting gabled end bay with a lateral stack on the right. The irregular rear includes a Venetian stair window. The single-storey, five-bay service wing has boarded windows and a steeply-pitched roof with a hipped end.
Inside, there is a mid-18th-century three-flight cut-string open-well staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail. The entrance hall features moulded wall panels and an enriched late 18th-century chimney-piece. Several six-panel doors are set in architraves, and there are three-panel window shutters. The stair window displays a Palladian motif with angular capitals.
A late 20th-century rear addition is not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
Shotton Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- 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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