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Baal Hill House Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Wolsingham, County Durham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.7419 / 54°44'30"N

Longitude: -1.8859 / 1°53'9"W

OS Eastings: 407444

OS Northings: 538551

OS Grid: NZ074385

Mapcode National: GBR HF8L.HY

Mapcode Global: WHC4S.027M

Plus Code: 9C6WP4R7+PJ

Entry Name: Baal Hill House Farmhouse

Listing Date: 31 January 1967

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1232905

English Heritage Legacy ID: 408281

ID on this website: 101232905

Location: County Durham, DL13

County: County Durham

Civil Parish: Wolsingham

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham

Church of England Parish: Wolsingham

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


WOLSINGHAM DODD HILL LANE
NZ 03 NE
(West side, off)
Wolsingham
22/354 Baal Hill House
31.1.67 Farmhouse
GV II


Bastlehouse. Late C16 with additions and alterations. Thinly-rendered
sandstone rubble with irregular quoins; stone-flagged roof with stone gable
copings and stone and brick chimneys; Welsh slate roofs on front additions.
2 storeys raised to 3; 2 wide bays; one-storey front pent additions at each
end. Right wing 2 storeys, 3 bays. Main house has long, wide flight of stone
steps, with flat-coped side walls, to wide first-floor stone-walled porch,
renewed double door and single inner door. Pent additions flank steps. First
floor has C20 casements; second-floor 3-light casement at left. Right wing has
3 doors under flat stone lintels, and varied windows:- sashes, one horizontal
casement, and fixedlight; 3 small square blocked windows at eaves. Left return
has 2-centred-arched chamfered stone doorway, partly blocked and with Dutch
door inserted; right return (of wing) has side steps to first-floor door under
pigeon holes in gable peak. Interior: ground floor divided by stone wall;
blocked 2-centred arch in right gable; barrel vault with possible ladder-hole
beside left door. Boarded dado in first-floor entrance hall; stop-chamfered
beams in first-floor rooms.

Source: Conyers Surtees History of the Parish of Wolsingham 1929, pp 42-3.

C17 door now re-used in sheep pen.


Listing NGR: NZ0744438551

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