Penshaw House is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Penshaw House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-quoin-heath
- 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
- Penshaw House, Station Road, DH4 7LB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 321 529
- Coordinates
- 54.87007, -1.49985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penshaw House is a house that has been converted into a social services assessment centre and two dwellings. It was built around 1830 and features ashlar stonework with a low-pitched roof made of Welsh slate, which has flat stone gable coping. The building is two storeys high and has three windows on the west elevation. A central half-glazed door is set between narrow windows within a flat Tuscan doorcase. The ground floor has tripartite sash windows, while the first floor has single sash windows, all of which include glazing bars. The house also has a cill band, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course, along with two brick chimneys at either end. Inside, the property showcases architraves around five-panelled doors, window shutters, and some moulded cornices and patterned friezes. The staircase features decorated tread ends.
Local climate
Penshaw 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 — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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