Priests House 90 metres east of Croxdale Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1982. House.
Priests House 90 metres east of Croxdale Hall
- WRENN ID
- turning-sill-linden
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1982
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NZ 274 378
- Coordinates
- 54.73513, -1.57561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priest's House, located 90 metres east of Croxdale Hall, is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century, consisting of two builds. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble, topped with ridged concrete roof tiles and features brick chimney stacks. The building is long and only one room deep, with a staircase against the inner wall of the left gable end. It has two storeys and a central straight joint that separates the original two-bay section on the left. The ends and the left side of the joint have roughly-squared quoins.
The left section includes early 19th-century openings: a 16-pane horizontal-sliding sash window to the left of a boarded door, two large eight-pane sashes, and a small two-pane window above. An external stone chimney is located in the centre of the front wall of the right section, featuring a handmade brick flue that narrows towards the top, with the flue having been widened on the right side in the 19th century. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped on the right, with rebuilt stacks at the left end and ridge. There are boarded-over windows on the returns and rear, including two first-floor 12-pane sashes under rubbed-brick lintels with keystones. A small, single-storey lean-to addition on the right bay of the front has a boarded door and a horizontal-sliding sash window.
Inside, there is a two-flight, dogleg staircase with replaced splat balusters on the upper flight. The first-floor bedroom on the left features an 18th-century wood chimneypiece and a blocked window on the rear wall with a panelled reveal. The bedroom on the right, accessed through a doorway with a panelled reveal, has a similar chimneypiece with a guilloche frieze and a corniced mantel-shelf. Several two-panel doors are present, set in thin moulded surrounds with I-L hinges.
Historically, the house was traditionally occupied by the Priest-in-Residence to the Roman Catholic Salvin family of Croxdale Hall. At the time of the survey, it was unoccupied.
Local climate
Priests House 90 metres east of Croxdale Hall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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