Selaby Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Selaby Hall
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-ember-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Selaby Hall, Gainford, DL2 3HF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 153 183
- Coordinates
- 54.55974, -1.76467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Selaby Hall is a country house that likely dates from the mid-17th century, with significant additions made around 1790 and alterations in the early 20th century. The building features roughcast masonry and graduated green slate roofs, along with roughcast stacks. The main block, constructed around 1790, has a mid-17th century wing attached to the right rear.
The house has a two-storey, seven-bay front with a bowed three-bay center. The ground floor includes a low plinth, a sill band, and mainly renewed 12-pane sash windows with blind boxes. Above, there are renewed 9- and 12-pane sashes with projecting sills. A continuous eaves cornice runs along the roof, which is low-pitched and hipped, topped with four corniced ridge stacks. The left return has five bays with a bowed three-bay center, and the ground floor features three elongated 15-pane sashes. The right return has three bays with circular towers at the front and rear, which also contain mainly renewed 12-pane sashes. The rear tower features a 20th-century six-panel door, and both towers have low-pitched conical roofs.
The two-storey rear wing has four irregularly spaced bays. It includes double chamfered mullioned windows with two and three lights, featuring Gothick glazing and round-arched heads with Y-tracery. There is a 20th-century single-storey addition on the left side. The roof is hipped to the right and has two ridge stacks.
Inside, the rear wing features a doorway with a chamfered reveal and a four-centred head. The main block contains early 19th-century six-panel doors and window shutters.
There are outbuildings attached to the left return and rear, but they are not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
Selaby 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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