Hardwick Hall Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1968. Country house, hotel. 5 related planning applications.

Hardwick Hall Hotel

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 January 1968
Type
Country house, hotel
Address
Hardwick Hall Hotel, A177, Sedgefield, TS21 2EH
OS grid reference
NZ 345 293
Coordinates
54.65783, -1.46536
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hardwick Hall Hotel is a country house that has been converted into a hotel, originally shown on the Ordnance Survey map as a maternity home. It dates from the mid-18th century and may include parts of an older structure, with alterations made in the early 20th century. The building features pebble-dashed masonry and brick, topped with Welsh slate roofs and rebuilt brick chimneys.

The hotel is designed in an L-shape with a rear wing on the right, standing two storeys plus an attic and comprising five bays, with flanking two-storey, one-bay wings. The central entrance has a later, part-glazed porch supported by four Roman Doric columns, with an entablature and double doors flanked by three-pane sidelights. Inside, there are two-panel, part-glazed inner double doors beneath a segmental fanlight, accompanied by three-pane sidelights and elongated 12-pane sash windows.

The front facade features mainly replaced 12-pane sash windows, a first-floor band, and a dentilled eaves cornice. The low-pitched hipped roof includes two dormers with segmental pediments and two ridge chimneys. The set-back wings have semi-octagonal returns, a first-floor band, and mainly replaced 12-pane sashes, with a low-pitched roof hipped over the returns. The two-storey, 11-bay rear wing has two-pane sashes on the ground floor and replaced 12-pane sashes above, with a roof that includes five ridge chimneys. The interior was remodeled in the early 20th century. There are also additions to the left rear and a detached stable block, which are not considered of special interest.

Local climate

Hardwick Hall Hotel receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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