Low Middleton Hall and Former Stable on Rear is a Grade II* listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. House. 7 related planning applications.
Low Middleton Hall and Former Stable on Rear
- WRENN ID
- north-porch-bistre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Stockton West MP: Matt Vickers (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Low Middleton Hall and Former Stable on Rear, Middleton St. George, DL2 1AX
- OS grid reference
- NZ 364 108
- Coordinates
- 54.492, -1.43857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Middleton Hall is a house dating from 1721, built for Robert Killinghall. It was altered in the late 18th century and further extended around 1870. Additional features include a former stable block on the rear. The main fabric is squared red sandstone with brick dressings, and it has pantiled roofs, old brick chimney stacks, and roughcast brick additions to the rear.
The house consists of a one-room-deep main block with two gabled wings to the rear. A late 18th-century wing sits alongside a late 19th-century former stable on a central rear wing, with a circa 1870 tower and stair turret on the right rear. The main block is three stories high with ten bays. It features squared quoins. A doorway and two early 19th-century 12-pane sashes are within altered openings on the centre of the ground floor. Original openings elsewhere have brick jambs and flat arches. The 12-pane sashes largely retain thick glazing bars with ovolo moulding on the inside, while the top floor has square 6-pane sashes and 12-pane horizontal-sliding sashes. A square stone sundial with an iron gnomon is located centrally on the first floor. The eaves are raised in brick, and a painted stone cornice runs along the top. The steep roof has coped gables and end and ridge stacks. A lead rainwater head dated 1721 (RKI) is on the left return. An elaborate rainwater head dated 1696 along with a lead tank dated 1765 (brought from a house in Yarm around 1890) is located at the rear. The rear has two two-story, single-bay deep gabled wings, partly concealed by later additions. The central wing features an embattled parapet and a 1721 rainwater head. The rear additions include a three-story square-plan tower and a lower stair turret, also with embattled parapets on the right. Further additions include a tall, single-story two-bay wing and a two-story, three-bay former stable on the rear of the gabled central wing; the former has a six-panel door and paired sashes, while the latter has a central Dutch door and partly-glazed hit-and-miss windows, under a continuous steeply-pitched roof.
Inside the main block, a central open-well staircase from the 18th century is present, with a 19th-century stick balustrade and handrail. A back stair has a moulded closed string, panelled newels, turned balusters, and a ramped, square-sectioned handrail. A ground-floor room to the right retains original panelling with a dado rail, a bolection-moulded wood chimneypiece with an overmantel, an 8-panel door with panelled reveals, and a ceiling cornice. An adjacent room also has original panelling. First-floor bedrooms also have early 18th-century panelling and some two-panel doors.
The rear additions and former stable are included for their contribution to the group value. An altered cottage attached to the stable is not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
Low Middleton Hall and Former Stable on Rear sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% 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, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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