The Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House.
The Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-cellar-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Hall is a house, originally two houses, dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of limewashed rubble with a rubble plinth and painted ashlar dressings. The roof is pantiled and features two rows of stone flags at the eaves, stone gable coping, and stone chimneys. The building has a hearth passage plan with a right rear stair wing. It stands two storeys tall and has three bays, with the third bay being wider.
The second bay contains a renewed door framed by an architrave with a frieze and cornice. The windows have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills, featuring late 19th-century sashes. The roof displays cyma reversa moulded kneelers, although the coping ends have been removed. There are two banded ridge chimneys flanking the door. The rear gabled stair wing has a roof styled similarly to the main building, and there is a pent porch addition at the angle with the house. An original rear door, located opposite the front door, has a tongue-stopped chamfered surround and is now within the rear porch.
Inside, there are several boarded two-panel doors and ledged boarded doors. A stone fire arch in the ground floor room of the third bay is obscured by 20th-century boarding. The open-well newel stair features a flat-topped handrail with a grip mould on the outer edge, supported by splat balusters and a moulded close string, with low pyramidal caps and pendants on some newels. A broad-chamfered beam is present in the third bay, while the other bays are underdrawn and boxed.
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