Flass Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.

Flass Hall

WRENN ID
fading-corner-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
House
Address
Flass Hall, Flasshall Lane, Brandon and Byshottles, DH7 9QD
OS grid reference
NZ 205 425
Coordinates
54.77713, -1.68214
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Flass Hall is a large house, now divided into two dwellings, dating to the late 17th century, with significant alterations from the mid-19th century and later additions to the rear. The exterior is rendered and painted masonry, topped by a roof of large Welsh slates, with rebuilt grey brick chimneys. The house follows a double-depth plan and is covered by a two-span roof.

The front elevation has two storeys plus an attic, spread across seven irregular bays. A renewed four-panel door is set within a raised stone surround featuring chamfered arrises, a horizontal cyma recta moulding, and a triangular stone hood. The ground floor windows are late 20th-century top-hung casements with flush rock-faced lintels and projecting sills. Five similar windows are located above, along with four half dormers. The roof is characterised by coped gables, small shaped kneelers, and end chimneys. The right return of the rear range incorporates an external stack. The left return has a small first-floor lancet window to the front range, and a mid-19th-century pointed three-light window, formerly from a chapel, under a hoodmould to the rear. A two-storey former service wing is visible, featuring late 20th-century window openings.

Inside, the entrance hall has both four- and eight-panel doors within moulded surrounds. Ground-floor rooms are distinguished by exposed ceiling beams of heavy scantling. A late 17th-century open-well staircase has turned balusters, square newels, and a square-section, moulded handrail.

Local climate

Flass Hall receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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