Anvil House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Anvil House
- WRENN ID
- dim-fireplace-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Anvil House, Brignall
- OS grid reference
- NZ 068 122
- Coordinates
- 54.50537, -1.89603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Anvil House is a building that originally served as a schoolroom with an attached master's house, now functioning as a private residence. It dates from the later 18th century and is constructed of coursed rubble with horizontally-tooled quoins and dressings, topped with a stone slate roof.
The north elevation is divided into two sections. The right part is the master's house, featuring a gabled two-storey bay that has a false four-pane window on the ground floor and a 12-pane Yorkshire sash window above, along with a coped gable. There is a stepped-and-banded lateral stack on the left side, and an outshut on the right that has a renewed window in an old opening. To the left, the single-storey two-bay schoolroom includes a pent porch in the right bay, with a renewed door on the left return and a four-pane sash window on the left. The left gable is coped, and the left return displays a stepped projecting stack.
On the rear elevation, the house features a French window, with a renewed window in an old opening above it, while the schoolroom has two four-pane sash windows.
The school was established in 1794 and remained operational until 1866. Anvil House is included in the heritage register for its historical significance.
Local climate
Anvil House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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