Seaton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1979. House.

Seaton Hall

WRENN ID
stark-lintel-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 July 1979
Type
House
Address
Seaton Hall, Seaton with Slingley
OS grid reference
NZ 398 499
Coordinates
54.8428, -1.38159
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Seaton Hall is a substantial house that likely dates from the late 17th century to the early 19th century, with later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of random rubble, with the entrance front pebbledashed and the garden front stuccoed, topped with Welsh slate roofs. It features two parallel ranges and a short extension to the east. The entrance front was remodeled in the late 19th century and consists of three storeys with three bays, including a cross-gabled right bay and a two-bay left extension. There is a one-storey porch with a delicate cast-iron balustrade above. All the windows were inserted in the late 19th century, and the three central upper windows are half dormers. The high-pitched roof has truncated gable stacks.

The early 19th-century garden front is two storeys high and has five bays, featuring a four-panel double door with a patterned fanlight set in an open-pedimented Roman Doric doorcase. The windows are two-pane sashes with raised sills and wedge lintels. The eaves cornice is moulded, and there is a low coped parapet at the gables with kneelers and ball finials. The roof is also high-pitched with truncated gable stacks. The lower right extension has renewed openings.

Inside, there is a spacious open-well early 19th-century staircase with square balusters, a wreathed handrail, and shaped tread ends. The woodwork is notable, featuring six-panel doors, reeded door and window architraves with leafy angle paterae, and panelled shutters. Some early 19th-century enriched plaster cornices and two lozenge panels of high-relief plasterwork, possibly from the 17th century, may have been resited.

Local climate

Seaton Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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