Sherburn Hospital Dispensary is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Community hall. 1 related planning application.
Sherburn Hospital Dispensary
- WRENN ID
- kindled-joist-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- Community hall
- Address
- Sherburn Hospital Dispensary, A 181, Shincliffe, DH1 2SH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 307 414
- Coordinates
- 54.76722, -1.52312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sherburn Hospital Dispensary is a former dispensary that has been converted into a community hall. It was built in 1883, as indicated by a date on a stained glass window in the left bay, with an early 20th-century addition at the rear. The building is constructed of tooled dressed sandstone, with engineering brick used for the rear and the addition, and it features a plain clay tile roof. Designed in the Tudor style, the structure has a shallow H-plan and is a single storey high.
The centre bay is flanked by slightly projecting cross-gabled bays. On the left half of the centre bay, there is a porch that features a three-centred arched moulded doorway, which is flanked by pilasters. Above the doorway, a frieze is inscribed with the words "SHERBURN HOSPITAL DISPENSARY." The windows are double-chamfered and ovolo-mullioned, with a three-light window to the right of the porch and four-light mullioned-and-transomed windows in the end bays, all under hoodmoulds. The left window is taller and contains stained glass.
The outer bays have small sunk panels in double-chamfered surrounds, with an armorial carving on the left and a carving of Christ as healer on the right. The gables are coped and feature finials at the apex and footstones. The roof is steeply pitched, with off-centre corniced ridge stacks. The left return has a two-bay section with a two-light window at the rear, while the right return has a slightly taller three-bay extension at the rear, designed in a similar style. There is a 20th-century range of garages on the right return, which are not of interest.
Local climate
Sherburn Hospital Dispensary receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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