Sanson Seal House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. Villa.

Sanson Seal House

WRENN ID
small-quoin-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 August 1952
Type
Villa
Address
Sanson Seal House, Duns Road, Berwick-Upon-Tweed
OS grid reference
NT 963 545
Coordinates
55.78418, -2.05963
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sanson Seal House is an early 19th-century villa constructed of ashlar. It has two storeys and features a high rusticated basement, three stone bands, a moulded cornice, and a broken pediment at the centre. The entrance consists of a double door with a traceried fanlight, accessed by a double flight of curving steps. The ground floor has four 12-paned sash windows, while the upper floor has five.

Local climate

Sanson Seal House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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