Daniel Adamsons Coach House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1980. Coach house. 1 related planning application.
Daniel Adamsons Coach House
- WRENN ID
- little-newel-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1980
- Type
- Coach house
- Address
- Daniel Adamsons Coach House, Byerley Road, Shildon, DL4 1JJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 224 264
- Coordinates
- 54.63225, -1.65386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former railway coach house, built circa 1831 for Daniel Adamson. It is constructed of hammer-dressed sandstone with a renewed Welsh slate roof. The building is a tall, single-story structure with flush quoins. The front is gabled and features a blocked semicircular-arched opening with flush voussoirs and impost bands. A late 20th-century boarded door has been inserted, with a replaced four-pane sash window above. The roof has renewed coped gables and shaped footstones. The two-bay left return has a low plinth and two similar blind arched openings. The gabled rear also contains similar blocked openings.
The coach house was built in 1831 after Daniel Adamson pioneered a horse-drawn railway coach, named Perseverance, which ran between Shildon and Darlington in 1827. The building served as both a station and a shed when the Surtess Railway opened. It is considered to be probably the earliest surviving railway coach house in the world.
Local climate
Daniel Adamsons Coach 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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