Former Head Office building of Sheepbridge Engineering Limited is a Grade II listed building in the Chesterfield local planning authority area, England. Office building.

Former Head Office building of Sheepbridge Engineering Limited

WRENN ID
vast-gravel-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chesterfield
Constituency
Chesterfield MP: Mr Toby Perkins (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Office building
Address
Former Head Office building of Sheepbridge Engineering Limited, Dunston House, Dunston Road
OS grid reference
SK 372 744
Coordinates
53.26616, -1.44236
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former Head Office building of Sheepbridge Engineering Limited, also known as Dunston House, is an early 19th-century structure. It is built of red brick with stucco dressings and features a hipped slate roof topped with a white-painted, domed cupola that includes a clock. The building has two storeys and a symmetrical facade with four windows on the ground floor and two on the upper floor, with the centre two windows set forward under a pediment. Some original sash windows with glazing bars remain, although some glazing has been replaced with plain or leaded lights. Additionally, there is an added gabled brick porch that has a round-arched door, a plain fanlight, and a panelled door.

Local climate

Former Head Office building of Sheepbridge Engineering Limited receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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