Baal Hill House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. Farmhouse.
Baal Hill House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- keen-panel-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Baal Hill House Farmhouse is a bastlehouse dating from the late 16th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of thinly-rendered sandstone rubble featuring irregular quoins, and has a stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings and stone and brick chimneys, while the front additions have Welsh slate roofs. The building has two storeys raised to three, with two wide bays and one-storey front pent additions at each end. The right wing is two storeys with three bays.
The main house is accessed by a long, wide flight of stone steps, which have flat-coped side walls, leading to a wide first-floor stone-walled porch with a renewed double door and a single inner door. The pent additions flank the steps. The first floor features 20th-century casements, while the second floor has a three-light casement on the left. The right wing includes three doors under flat stone lintels and a variety of windows, including sashes, one horizontal casement, and a fixed light, along with three small square blocked windows at the eaves.
On the left return, there is a two-centred-arched chamfered stone doorway that is partly blocked and has a Dutch door inserted. The right return of the wing has side steps leading to a first-floor door beneath pigeon holes in the gable peak. Inside, the ground floor is divided by a stone wall, and there is a blocked two-centred arch in the right gable. The left door features a barrel vault with a possible ladder-hole beside it. The first-floor entrance hall has a boarded dado, and the first-floor rooms contain stop-chamfered beams. Additionally, a 17th-century door has been re-used in a sheep pen.
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