Dial House is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Dial House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-landing-elm
- 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
- Dial House, 24, Front Street, DH4 4EP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 338 515
- Coordinates
- 54.85757, -1.47455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial House is a house dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, constructed from coursed limestone rubble with a pantile roof. The building has two storeys and features three sash windows, each with projecting stone cills and flat stone lintels. An oblong fanlight is located above the door in the first bay, and there is a sundial positioned between the first and second floor windows. The roof is steeply pitched and has a double-span design that is half hipped at the left rear. The front range includes two massive end chimney stacks, with the right one being square.
Inside, the house has a closed string well staircase that features three thick graduated barley-sugar balusters for every two treads, supporting a wide flat handrail, along with square-topped newel posts. The roof is reported to have pegged trusses and through purlins.
Local climate
Dial 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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