Church 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.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-crypt-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church House, Front Street, DH8 0PJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 103 554
- Coordinates
- 54.89379, -1.84044
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a 17th-century house with alterations from the 18th century. It is constructed of irregular, coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins. The roof is covered in Welsh slate with stone gable copings on curved kneelers, and brick chimneys. The north front, which faces the garden, has two storeys and three windows. The ground floor windows have an irregular arrangement with late 19th-century and plain sash windows beneath flat stone lintels. The first-floor sash windows are 12-pane and have flat stone lintels and sills. The roof has been lowered, but the gables remain at their original height, and there are end chimneys. A full-width outshut on the south front, with a catslide roof, is marked by large quoins. Inside, there are massive chamfered beams, broadly spaced. There is a square newel staircase with a flat handrail on stick balusters, located within the outshut.
Local climate
Church 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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