Laburnum House is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. House.

Laburnum House

WRENN ID
old-lancet-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sunderland
Constituency
Houghton and Sunderland South MP: Bridget Phillipson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 July 1985
Type
House
Address
Laburnum House, Front Street, Hetton
OS grid reference
NZ 353 473
Coordinates
54.82016, -1.45208
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laburnum House is a house built around 1810. It is constructed of painted coursed squared limestone and has a roof made of concrete tiles. The building features four sash windows on the ground floor, each with projecting stone cills, and a cill band on the first floor, along with flat stone lintels. There is a double door located in a later porch in the second bay. The hipped roof is topped with a central transverse corniced chimney made of yellow brick.

Local climate

Laburnum House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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