The Old Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Hall

WRENN ID
pitched-finial-pine
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Darlington
Constituency
Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1952
Type
House
Address
The Old Hall, 23, the Green, High Coniscliffe, DL2 2LJ
OS grid reference
NZ 225 153
Coordinates
54.53312, -1.65325
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Hall is a large house dating from around 1700, with a medieval wing on the left rear. The medieval wing is constructed of coursed rubble and has a pantiled roof. The main house features painted roughcast masonry and a pantiled roof with stone-flagged eaves, along with pebble-dashed chimney stacks. It is a 2-storey, 5-bay structure with raised-and-chamfered quoins. The entrance has a 6-panel door set in a broken-pedimented stone surround, located in the fourth bay. The original 12-pane sash windows have been replaced but retain projecting sills and wedge lintels. Above the door, there is a small square sundial with a circular face and a replaced gnomon, as well as a blocked oval window in a cable-moulded surround. The steeply-pitched roof has swept eaves, coped gables, and shaped kneelers, with end and ridge stacks.

The medieval wing features ground-floor walls that are 1.5 metres thick, a chamfered plinth, and remnants of a corbelled-out garderobe, alongside a later stone stair cut into the side on the left return. It also has alternating quoins, a blocked doorway, and a small first-floor lancet window on the rear gable end, with a roof that includes a brick stack at the rear. At the back of the house, there is a narrow 2-storey gabled stair wing with a replaced sash window.

Inside, the medieval wing contains a barrel-vaulted ground-floor room with a deep arched splay from a former gable-end doorway. The house features a possibly reconstructed 2-flight dogleg staircase with a closed string, square-section moulded handrail, and balusters with three rounded knops. A 2-storey, 2-bay addition on the right side of the house is not of special interest.

Local climate

The Old Hall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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