BAAL HILL HOUSE FARMHOUSE

BAAL HILL HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DODD HILL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232905
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: BAAL HILL HOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BAAL HILL HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DODD HILL LANE

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Date:: 1999-09-03
Reference:: IOE01/01219/14
Rights:: © Mr Brian Wilcockson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232905
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: BAAL HILL HOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BAAL HILL HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DODD HILL LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BAAL HILL HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DODD HILL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wolsingham
National Grid Reference:: NZ 07444 38551

Details

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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Legacy System number:: 408281
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Conyers Surtees, , History of the Parish of Wolsingham, (1929), 42-3

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.