Hunwick Hall Farmhouse and Wall Attached is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1952. Farmhouse.
Hunwick Hall Farmhouse and Wall Attached
- WRENN ID
- muffled-groin-vale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NZ 189 323
- Coordinates
- 54.68621, -1.70753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hunwick Hall is a manor-house that has been converted into a farmhouse, dating from the late medieval period and the 17th century, with some alterations. It forms part of the south-east range of three ranges surrounding a courtyard. The building is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring quoins on the left side and a boulder plinth. The roof is a mix of Welsh slate, felt, and concrete tiles, with brick chimneys and stone gable copings.
The structure is two storeys high, with three bays, and includes a pent section on the left that is one storey tall and has one window. The wall attached to the rear of this section is a remnant of an earlier building. The older part of the house on the left features a four-centred arch in the wall. The left side has a half-octagonal projecting bay window with cusped Tudor-arched heads and iron bars, supported by buttresses with offsets. It also has a drip string and a low-pitched hipped roof. An inserted door to the right has a flat stone lintel.
The two-storey section has a central partly-glazed door and renewed four- and three-light ground-floor windows, all under flat stone lintels. Above the door is a single window, and to the right on the first floor is another renewed three-light window. The first-floor window on the left is a 17th-century design with four stone-mullioned lights, featuring a cornice that breaks forward at the ends and a raised centre panel with eroded carving. The double-span roof has end chimneys, and the copings rest on curved kneelers. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included for its medieval and 17th-century features.
Local climate
Hunwick Hall Farmhouse and Wall Attached receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Hunwick Hall North West and North East Ranges
- Fountain in Wall in Front of Nnumber 9 North View
- Hunwick War Memorial, enclosure and railings
- Helmington Hall Including Adjacent Storage Building and Gateway
- Beechburn Grange
- Outbuildings to North West of Beechburn Grange
- Newfield Farmhouse
- Newfield War Memorial
- The Saxon Church
- Group of Eight Early C18 Tombs to South of the Saxon Church