Wackerfield Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

Wackerfield Hall

WRENN ID
distant-sandstone-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NZ 153 225
Coordinates
54.59755, -1.76422
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wackerfield Hall is a farmhouse built around 1840. It features colourwashed rough render with a painted ashlar plinth and painted tooled ashlar dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate, with stone gable copings, brick chimneys, and a bellcote that has ashlar dressings. The building is L-shaped, with two storeys and three bays, plus a slightly lower, set-back left wing that has two storeys and one bay.

The central entrance consists of a four-panel door with an overlight, set within a doorcase that includes pilasters and an entablature. The windows are 12-pane sashes, with the ground floor windows being larger, featuring wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The left wing has similar windows. The low-pitched roofs are adorned with elaborately-shaped gable kneelers, and the chimneys at the ends of the main house and the rear of the wing are ashlar-banded. The bellcote on the left return gable of the wing has a keyed round-headed ashlar arch.

On the right return, there is a corniced canted ground-floor bay window and a first-floor 12-pane sash at the rear of the gable. The rear of the building displays a two-light horizontal sliding sash on the ground floor to the left, a round-headed stair sash with patterned glazing bars, and one first-floor 12-pane sash. Some of the other windows have been renewed.

Local climate

Wackerfield Hall receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 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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