School House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
School House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-kitchen-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- School House, Hunstanworth, DH8 9UR
- OS grid reference
- NY 951 483
- Coordinates
- 54.8302, -2.07703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House, originally the headmaster's house, is now a private residence built around 1863 by S.S. Teulon for Rev. Daniel Capper. It features snecked sandstone in various colours with ashlar dressings, a plinth, and quoins. The roof is made of dark blue slates with some green slates. The building is L-shaped with a stair turret at the inner return angle and a low pent extension on the right. It has two storeys and three bays. The wide left bay beneath the front gable includes a later wooden porch on the right. The windows are two-light casements set in chamfered alternate-block surrounds, with the upper windows located under relieving arches. The round stair turret has 6-pane windows beneath a high conical roof, and a similar window is found in the right pent extension. The steeply-pitched roof is topped with a tall rear chimney, and there is a canted hipped bay window on the right return gable beneath a small two-light casement.
Local climate
School House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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