The Limes is a Grade II listed building in the South Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. Large house. 14 related planning applications.
The Limes
- WRENN ID
- calm-garret-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- South Shields MP: Emma Lewell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- Large house
- Address
- The Limes, 3, 2, 1, Front Street, SR6 7JD
- OS grid reference
- NZ 405 618
- Coordinates
- 54.94987, -1.36781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes is a large house built in 1869 for Sir John Fenwick, and now divided into three separate dwellings. The main house is constructed of ashlar sandstone with quoins, with the front facing being rock-faced and raised. The service wings are set back twice, and the roof is of graded Westmorland slates, with hips on the service wings and a projecting bay on the right-hand side. The house has two storeys and originally had five, one, three and then two windows. The main part of the house, on the left, features a central canted bay with three sash windows. At either side of the bay are sash windows with segmental pediments on the ground floor and double sash windows above. Bands and dentilled eaves cornices are also present, along with a hipped roof to the bay. A first setback includes a door and a narrow window, with a French window and cast-iron balcony on the first floor. A second setback features a door and three windows, while a final projection has two windows. The north-facing garden elevation has a central doorway with a Tuscan surround and pediment. There are five ashlar chimney stacks with banded cornices. The principal room on the ground floor has a painted ceiling featuring a formalised pattern of marigolds and chrysanthemums.
Local climate
The Limes sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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