House and Wall Adjacent to Masterman Place Arch is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House.
House and Wall Adjacent to Masterman Place Arch
- WRENN ID
- late-copper-sorrel
- 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
- House and Wall Adjacent to Masterman Place Arch, DL12 0ST
- OS grid reference
- NY 949 252
- Coordinates
- 54.6227, -2.07947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, originally a reading room, is now a house and was constructed in 1854 for the London Lead Company. It features coursed squared sandstone with painted tooled ashlar dressings and a roof made of graduated stone flags. The house is a single storey with three bays and has a right-side pent extension. The central entrance is a 20th-century glazed door set in a tooled stone surround, which is topped by a stone-bracketed ridged hood. On either side of the door are sash windows with fine glazing bars, flat stone lintels, and projecting stone sills. The left side of the building has two narrow sash windows in a similar style.
At the left rear, a rubble sandstone wall connects to an arch and has round coping. The right side of the house features a flat-coped extension with 20th-century openings that are not of special interest.
Local climate
House and Wall Adjacent to Masterman Place Arch sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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