Saltoun House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. House, former school. 1 related planning application.
Saltoun House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-hammer-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- House, former school
- Address
- Saltoun House, Main Street, Cotherstone, DL12 9PF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 010 198
- Coordinates
- 54.57393, -1.98574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Saltoun House is a house, originally a Wesleyan school, likely dating from the late 18th century and significantly altered around 1830. The front of the building is pebble-dashed with a dressed stone basement. It has a stone-flagged roof and stone chimney stacks.
The house is two storeys high, plus a basement, and is arranged with three wide bays. Raised-and-chamfered quoins are visible on the left-hand side. A set of seven stone steps lead to a central entrance featuring a partly-glazed six-panel door within an enriched, pedimented doorcase with decorative consoles. The basement, below a roll-moulded band, contains paired four-pane sashes set in projecting, tooled surrounds. Tripartite sash windows flank the doorway, and each has a projecting surround with stepped arched heads. A central sash window above, within a similar arched surround, is flanked by identical tripartite windows. The roof has a coped left gable with a shaped kneeler. A corniced stack at the left end and a stack to the right (positioned above the West Lodge) are set below the ridge and each features an ornamental chimney-pot.
West Lodge, attached to the right of the main house, is not included for its special architectural or historic interest.
Local climate
Saltoun House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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