Joan's Fruit and Freezer Centre and Kensington House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1973. Shop, house.
Joan's Fruit and Freezer Centre and Kensington House
- WRENN ID
- crooked-ember-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1973
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- Joan's Fruit and Freezer Centre and Kensington House, High Street, Sedgefield
- OS grid reference
- NZ 355 288
- Coordinates
- 54.65368, -1.44991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Joan's Fruit and Freezer Centre and Kensington House is a shop with domestic accommodation above, dating from the early 18th century, with some alterations. The building features rendered masonry, a renewed pantiled roof, and rendered brick chimneys. It is two storeys high with a two-bay front. The entrance includes a 19th-century four-panel door with an overlight in the doorcase, and there is an early 20th-century glazed shopfront to the left. The windows have been replaced with sashes, featuring 12 panes on the first floor and 9 panes above. The steeply-pitched roof has a raised brick verge on the left side, with chimneys at the left end and ridge.
Inside, there is an early 18th-century staircase with three flights, an open-well design, and a cut-string style. The staircase has three column-on-vase balusters per tread supporting a wreathed and ramped handrail, and the landing rail features identical balusters. There is a 20th-century gabled rear addition that is not of special interest.
No. 10 and Kensington House are part of a larger, continuous three-storey, six-bay block, which includes Nos. 11 and 12 High Street. Nos. 10, 11, and 12 were previously listed as a single entry.
Local climate
Joan's Fruit and Freezer Centre and Kensington House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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