Nos. 2-4 Benfieldside Road is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. House and shop. 2 related planning applications.
Nos. 2-4 Benfieldside Road
- WRENN ID
- hollow-belfry-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1987
- Type
- House and shop
- Address
- Nos. 2-4 Benfieldside Road, DH8 0SG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 094 518
- Coordinates
- 54.86155, -1.8541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 2-4 Benfieldside Road is a house and former shop dating from the mid-19th century. The building is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with a rock-faced plinth, and features ashlar dressings and quoins. It has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. The house is two storeys high and has three bays, while the shop, which is set back to the right, is also two storeys but has one bay.
There is a step up to the central flushed door, which has an overlight in a raised stone surround with a stone hood. The late 19th-century sash windows in the outer bays are topped with flat stone lintels and have projecting stone sills. The shop front includes narrow pilasters and scrolled fascia brackets that support a cornice. There is another step up to a flush door and overlight on the right side, along with three elliptical-headed lights featuring central horizontal glazing bars and a late 19th-century sash window above. The low-pitched roof has two end chimneys on the main block.
Local climate
Nos. 2-4 Benfieldside Road receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
- 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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