Bradley Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. Farmhouse.

Bradley Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
endless-bonework-hazel
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
Bradley Hall Farmhouse, A689, Wolsingham
OS grid reference
NZ 108 361
Coordinates
54.72051, -1.83329
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bradley Hall Farmhouse is a manor house that has been converted into a farmhouse. It dates back to the 14th century when it was owned by the Eure family, and it received a license to crenellate in 1431. The only visible remnant of the original structure is a possibly 15th-century barrel-vaulted ruin. The current house was added in the late 18th century and is constructed of sandstone rubble with quoins, one made of Frosterley marble. It features an ashlar doorcase and a roof covered with graduated Lakeland slate, complete with a stone chimney.

The building has an L-plan layout, with four vaulted chambers running north-south, which include arched doorways and a fire arch. The openings are filled with 20th-century vehicle doors. To the right, the modern addition of three storeys has two windows and extends from the ruined wall, which has a small square blocked window on the first floor. The left side of the addition features an open-pedimented Tuscan doorcase that contains a six-panel door and a patterned fanlight. The first bay has tripartite sash windows, while the second bay has 12-pane sashes, all with painted wood lintels and sills, except for a painted wedge stone lintel above the right window on the second floor. A Frosterley marble slab serves as a quoin on the right side, positioned one metre above the ground. There are relieving arches paired between the ground-floor windows, likely related to a tunnel or drain that extends towards the River Wear. The roof is a low-pitched hipped double-span design.

Inside, there is a one-foot-wide beam on the ground floor between the rooms, a boarded dado, and some early 18th-century doors.

Local climate

Bradley Hall Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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