Thornley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.

Thornley Hall

WRENN ID
errant-latch-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
House
Address
Thornley Hall, Wolsingham, DL13 4PE
OS grid reference
NZ 116 370
Coordinates
54.7287, -1.82074
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thornley Hall is a house built in the early to mid-18th century, with an extension added around 1905. It is constructed of sandstone rubble, featuring ashlar dressings and quoins, and has a roof made of Welsh slate with ashlar chimneys. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a right extension that has two lower storeys and one bay. The central entrance consists of a boarded door with a small square light, set in a raised stone surround. The windows are late 19th-century sashes, with the ground floor windows being wider, all featuring flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The steeply-pitched roof is accented by corniced end chimneys and slightly swept eaves.

Inside, the ground-floor rooms showcase mid-18th-century panelling and a corner cupboard with a shell hood. There is an open square well stair with a ramped moulded handrail supported by turned balusters and shaped tread ends. The ground floor has four-panel doors, while the first floor features six-panel doors. The first-floor rooms also include panelled cupboards topped with dentilled cornices.

Local climate

Thornley Hall receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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