Vanbrugh House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1952. House.
Vanbrugh House
- WRENN ID
- rough-stone-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vanbrugh House, 4a, Woodhouse Lane
- OS grid reference
- NZ 189 268
- Coordinates
- 54.63601, -1.70826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vanbrugh House is a former coach house that has been converted into a private residence. It dates from the early 18th century and features a late 20th-century addition on the left side. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, and the lower courses are made of coursed rubble. The returns of the structure are rendered, and the roof is covered with synthetic tiles.
The house is two storeys tall and has six windows. All doors and windows have been replaced. The third bay contains a six-panel door set in a raised stone surround, which includes plinths, impost bands, and a round head with a large elongated key. A similar surround is found on the glazed door in the fifth bay. The windows feature sills and impost bands, with 9-pane fixed lights and radiating top glazing bars set in raised stone surrounds. The heads of the windows rest on an impost band and have triple keys, with the central key resembling those above the doors. The first-floor 9-pane lights also have triple keys that rise to the eaves. The bands continue across the late 20th-century left extension. The hipped roof has swept eaves, and the right return of the building has a blocked vehicle arch.
Local climate
Vanbrugh 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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