Sulphur House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. A Victorian Industrial.
Sulphur House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-beam-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Industrial
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Sulphur House, Horsley
- OS grid reference
- NZ 075 671
- Coordinates
- 54.9992, -1.8834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sulphur House is a water sulphurization building constructed in the late 19th century for the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company. It is built from rock-faced ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has a two-storey front and a single-storey rear, measuring approximately 25 by 35 feet. The façade includes flush alternating quoins and surrounds for the doors and windows. There is a double door with chamfered reveals, a three-light mullioned overlight, and a hoodmould above it. A three-light mullion-and-transom window with a Tudor arch is located above the door. Similar windows can be found on the returns, and there is a matching doorway at the rear. The building has chamfered offsets at both the ground and first floor levels, a moulded eaves cornice, and a pyramidal roof. Inside, there is 19th-century machinery, including a working beam engine and a large cast-iron capstan.
Local climate
Sulphur House receives an average of 860 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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