Tavistock House is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. House. 4 related planning applications.
Tavistock House
- WRENN ID
- rough-niche-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tavistock House, Tavistock Place, SR1 1PG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 400 568
- Coordinates
- 54.90464, -1.37764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tavistock House is a house, now used as offices, built around 1830. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, and features a coursed limestone rubble rear elevation and the right side of an extension. The roof is made of Welsh slate with stone gable copings. The building has two storeys and five windows, along with a lower right extension that has two storeys and two windows.
The central entrance has a renewed glazed door and overlight set within a Doric doorcase that includes engaged columns, an entablature, and a blocking course. The windows have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills, with renewed sashes and a first-floor sill band. The extension features 20th-century paired windows beneath rebuilt lintels. The roof has wide end chimneys, while the extension roof is hipped. There is a wide square-headed dormer on the left and a smaller flat-headed dormer on the right end. The right return of the building has a brick arch leading to a round-headed window located in the rear half of the gable peak section of the chimney stack.
Local climate
Tavistock House 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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