Waldridge Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. A C18 Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Waldridge Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- worn-wall-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Waldridge Hall Farmhouse, Waldridge Road, DH2 3SL
- OS grid reference
- NZ 259 497
- Coordinates
- 54.84223, -1.59733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a large farmhouse with a rear wing dating to the 18th century and a main block added around 1796, likely by David Stephenson. The farmhouse is constructed from coursed rubble, with rendered patches on the first floor of the main block. It has Welsh slate roofs and rebuilt brick chimney stacks, arranged in an L-shaped layout.
The main block is two storeys and six bays wide. A small, tetrastyle Tuscan porch fronts the house. Two partly-glazed doors are set within the porch. Flanking these are 12-pane sash windows, set within flat-faced surrounds with projecting sills. Above are elongated 18-pane sash windows in identical surrounds. Four delicate cast-iron balconies are positioned on the first-floor windows on either side of the centre. An eaves cornice features short returns, and a low parapet has a stepped centre with an urn. The roof has coped gables with end stacks. The original, two-storey rear wing has been altered.
Inside the main block, original features include six-panel doors within wooden architraves, a three-flight open-well staircase with column-on-vase balusters, and a staircase hall ceiling with a modillion cornice. A brick porch on the rear wing and a later addition to the rear of the main block are not considered to be of particular architectural interest.
Local climate
Waldridge Hall Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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