Ovington Hall and Adjacent Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1987. House, cottage. 6 related planning applications.

Ovington Hall and Adjacent Cottage

WRENN ID
ghost-stair-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1987
Type
House, cottage
Address
Ovington Hall and Adjacent Cottage, DL11 7BW
OS grid reference
NZ 129 146
Coordinates
54.52738, -1.80092
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ovington Hall and adjacent cottage are likely of 17th-century origin, with extensions and alterations in the 18th century. The building is constructed of rubble with cut stone dressings, partially rendered, and has graduated stone slate roofs. The original house incorporates a cottage, and has two rear wings and a ballroom extension to the north-west.

The south front is divided into two sections. The two-bay, rendered left-hand part is the original house and features a central half-glazed door with a three-pane overlight in a raised, tooled stone surround, and a stone panel over. It has four-pane sash windows. The right-hand part of four bays is irregular. It has a 20th-century French window and doorway, a boarded door at the right end, and twelve-pane sashes in stone surrounds, some of which have been renewed. The left-hand part has a steeply-pitched roof with coped gables on moulded kneelers and end stacks, the left of which is stepped and corniced, while the right has been rebuilt in grey brick on an old base. The right gable is coped with moulded kneelers and has an end stack; a stepped-and-corniced ridge stack is also present.

At the rear, the original house has two wings with stacks on the gables. The earlier right wing has a fielded-panel door and sash windows in raised stone surrounds. The added ballroom extension to the right has a single tall, twenty-four-pane sash window in a similar surround, and a coped left gable with moulded kneelers and an end stack.

The interior of the original house features heavy transverse ceiling beams. The ballroom contains a basket-arched proscenium with a Greek key frieze and imposts with paterae, a contemporary chimney-piece, folding fielded-panel shutters on butterfly hinges, a cornice with egg-and-dart moulding, and an ornamental ceiling rose.

The roof structure is not visible and may be of architectural interest.

Local climate

Ovington Hall and Adjacent Cottage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
  • 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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