Shincliffe Hall

Shincliffe Hall is a house, likely built around 1771 for William Rudd, and with alterations in the 20th century. It is now occupied by the Durham University Graduates' Society. The main building is constructed of brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with painted stone dressings. The main block has graduated stone tiles on its roof, while a wing to the right rear has a Welsh slate roof. The building has old brick chimney stacks. The main block is double-span with a contemporary wing set corner-to-corner at the rear.

The three-bay garden front is two stories high and has a band between the floors, as well as replaced sash windows with projecting stone sills and segmental brick heads. A late 20th-century addition exists on the ground floor of the right bay. The roof is steeply pitched, with stone-coped gable parapets, shaped kneelers, and tumbled-in brickwork on the gables. Twin-gabled returns include a two-story canted brick bay with a hipped roof on the left return of the front range, and some 12-pane sashes on the left return of the rear range. A two-story, late 19th-century lean-to addition is also present on the right return. The rear of the main block features a tripartite sash window and an early 20th-century octagonal, glazed porch.

The wing is of two stories and attics, with mainly replaced sashes in some altered openings, and a catslide roof with transverse end stacks. A lower, two-story rear-facing courtyard is also present.

Inside the main block is a cut-string, open-well staircase with three flights plus a landing rail, featuring two turned balusters per tread and a ramped and wreathed handrail. The staircase hall has a modillion cornice. The interior also contains six-panel doors in architraves with panelled reveals. A late 20th-century flat-roofed addition on the right ground-floor bay of the garden front is considered of no particular interest.