Wiserley Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. A C17 Farmhouse.
Wiserley Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-moulding-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wiserley Hall Farmhouse, Wear Bank, Wolsingham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 085 362
- Coordinates
- 54.72111, -1.86875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wiserley Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It is built of coursed rubble with a boulder plinth and ashlar dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring overlapping stone gable copings on the left side. The farmhouse has brick chimneys, some of which are on rendered stacks. The layout follows a cross-passage plan with a rear stair wing.
The east elevation, facing the garden, is two storeys high and consists of five bays. It features a half-glazed central door set in a square-headed surround with a moulded quirk-stopped chamfer. There are label moulds above the door, the ground-floor windows, and three of the first-floor windows on the right, all of which are in single-chamfered surrounds. To the left of the door is a fire window. The ground-floor windows originally had two or three lights, but the mullions have been removed. The third and fourth first-floor windows still retain their mullions and have vertical iron bars of diagonal section. The two left first-floor windows contain late 19th-century and 16-pane sash windows, respectively.
Inside, there is a round-headed doorway with a plank door on the left side of the passage towards the rear. Most other doors feature two raised and fielded panels set in very deep panelled reveals, and there is a pegged panelled and moulded cellar door. The ceilings have chamfered beams and joists with run-out and stepped stops. An early 18th-century cupboard in the left room has panelled doors along its length under a dresser, with glazed doors that feature horizontal flat glazing bars in a fret-cut scroll pattern and corner flat baluster supports for the shelf. A late 17th-century or early 18th-century dog-leg close-string staircase has a ramped, moulded handrail on turned balusters, although the balusters on the first flight have been removed. The risers are very shallow, and there is an L-plan landing balustrade.
The adjacent right byre has been altered too much to be of interest.
Local climate
Wiserley Hall Farmhouse receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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