Dial House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1975. House. 4 related planning applications.

Dial House

WRENN ID
crumbling-gable-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1975
Type
House
Address
Dial House, 64, Cutlers' Hall Road, DH8 8RG
OS grid reference
NZ 093 519
Coordinates
54.8622, -1.85517
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dial House is a building that dates back to around 1820 and was originally two houses that have been combined into one. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring stone gable copings, yellow brick chimneys, and a stone ridge. The building has a T-plan and is designed in a 17th-century style, with one high storey and three bays.

The central feature is a tall gabled porch that includes paired chamfered stone windows. The porch has a flat Tudor-arched surround leading to a boarded door on the left side, while the right side has a blocked stone surround. The flanking bays each have chamfered stone surrounds for two-light ground-floor windows, although the central mullions have been removed. Above these windows are corbelled half-dormers with gables, and all windows are fitted with lattice glazing.

Each gable is adorned with gabled stone coping on moulded kneelers, and there are projecting blocks that support obelisk finials over the porch and dormers. The building features two end chimneys. Inside the porch, there is a large diamond-shaped stone sundial with a bronze gnomon, and a small low-relief carving of a head over crossed laurel branches can be found in the left dormer.

Local climate

Dial House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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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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