Houghton Mines Rescue Station is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 2000. Rescue station. 2 related planning applications.
Houghton Mines Rescue Station
- WRENN ID
- stony-basalt-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South MP: Bridget Phillipson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 2000
- Type
- Rescue station
- Address
- Houghton Mines Rescue Station, Hetton Road, DH5 8PB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 345 489
- Coordinates
- 54.83444, -1.46379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Houghton Mines Rescue Station is a mines rescue station built in 1913. It is constructed of red brick with slate roofs and consists of two two-storey blocks connected by a single-storey block. The main block features rusticated brick quoins and an overhanging slate roof. The south front has two central round-arched doorways with rusticated jambs, flanked by two narrow glazing bar windows on each side. Above these are four two-light glazing bar casement windows, which are further flanked by single narrow glazing bar windows.
The left side of the building has two lower windows, with two glazing bar casement windows above. The right side features a doorway on the left with a modern door and three graduated staircase windows to the right. In the gable, there is a two-light glazing bar casement window. At the rear, there is a single-storey block with two small glazing bar windows and a Diocletian window in the set-back gable above. The back range has various glazing bar sash windows on the upper floor. The interior retains crawl ways that were used for practicing mine rescues.
Local climate
Houghton Mines Rescue Station 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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