Downhill House is a Grade II listed building in the South Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1977. House. 8 related planning applications.
Downhill House
- WRENN ID
- broken-loggia-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- Jarrow and Gateshead East MP: Kate Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downhill House, Downhill Lane, NE36 0AX
- OS grid reference
- NZ 347 603
- Coordinates
- 54.93688, -1.45934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downhill House is an 18th-century house located on Downhill Lane in West Boldon. It is constructed of rendered brick with stone quoins and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has a simple block plan and stands two storeys tall, with five windows that have lost their glazing bars and are framed with architraves. The central entrance consists of a six-panelled door set within an architrave that includes brackets and a pediment, and there is a band at the first-floor cill level. The mansard roof is topped with stone coping on moulded kneelers and has four brick chimneys at the ends. Inside, there is a later staircase balustrade, doors, and chimney pieces, while the window shutters remain intact. Historically, Downhill House served as an early Aged Miners' Home, purchased by the Boldon miners shortly after the formation of their Association in 1894, but it has since reverted to private ownership.
Local climate
Downhill House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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- Walls, Gates and Gate Piers to South of West Boldon Hall
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