Sudbury House (Former Chapel) is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. Church, former chapel.
Sudbury House (Former Chapel)
- WRENN ID
- lesser-pavement-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- Church, former chapel
- Address
- Sudbury House (Former Chapel), Soho Street, Shildon
- OS grid reference
- NZ 231 257
- Coordinates
- 54.62658, -1.64344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sudbury House, formerly a chapel and now a factory, was built in 1876. It features squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof, designed in the Italianate style. The building is two stories high with a three-bay front that has an open pediment. The front includes a chamfered plinth and raised-and-chamfered quoins. There is a pair of three-panel doors with a blocked two-pane overlight in a projecting pedimented porch supported by Tuscan antae. On either side of the porch are boarded, round-arched windows set in archivolts with keystones, impost bands, and projecting sills on consoles. Above the porch, there is a group of three small round-arched windows. The tympanum features a semicircular cemented panel in the archivolt with a keystone. The left return of the building has a four-bay arrangement with boarded, round-arched windows that share the same details. A stone eaves cornice runs along the top. Inside, there is a former gallery with pierced panels supported by cast-iron columns, and a later inserted ceiling at the gallery level.
Local climate
Sudbury House (Former Chapel) receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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