St Margarets House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
St Margarets House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-courtyard-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Margarets House, 40, Front Street, Stanley, DH9 9PX
- OS grid reference
- NZ 187 554
- Coordinates
- 54.89386, -1.70977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Margaret's House is a late 18th-century building that was originally two houses, now combined into one. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring stone gable copings and brick or ashlar chimneys. The building has two storeys and four windows. The entrance, located in the second bay, features a six-panel door with an overlight that has glazing bars, all set beneath a flat stone lintel with alternate-block jambs. There is a similar blocked opening between the third and fourth windows. All the windows are tripartite sashes, positioned under flat stone lintels with projecting stone sills. The roof is adorned with moulded kneelers, and there is a corniced ashlar chimney at the left end, along with yellow brick chimneys located between the second and third bays at the right end. The rear elevation displays gabled outer bays, with the right bay featuring an ashlar chimney and an urn finial on a slightly-recessed gabled centre that contains a Gothic Tudor-arched window with a keyed surround and lattice glazing.
Local climate
St Margarets House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- 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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