Ulnaby Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. Manor house, farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Ulnaby Hall

WRENN ID
lone-lead-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Darlington
Constituency
Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1952
Type
Manor house, farmhouse
Address
Ulnaby Hall, Ulnaby Lane, High Coniscliffe, DL2 2LT
OS grid reference
NZ 226 172
Coordinates
54.54963, -1.65144
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ulnaby Hall is a manor house that has been converted into a farmhouse. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century and features 19th-century alterations. The building was constructed by the Tailboys family of Thornton Hall. It is made of coursed rubble and has a roof covered with concrete-ridged tiles. The stone chimney stacks have been rebuilt with brick tops. The layout is a reversed U-plan, with rear wings of different lengths, the shorter wing located on the right.

The garden front is two stories high and has a two-window center flanked by wide, gable-fronted end bays that are also two stories tall with attics. The building features roughly-shaped quoins. There is a replaced door on the left of center, set in a cyma-moulded surround with a Tudor-arched head, and a 20th-century doorway to the right. Several windows are partly blocked and damaged, featuring 3-light mullions with inserted sashes. Sashes are found in 19th-century openings elsewhere on the building. The end bays have blocked 3-light, mullioned attic windows, footstones with broken plinths, and moulded gable copings. The roof is steeply pitched and has two large ridge stacks with offsets.

The left wing's return has two stories and three windows, with a fragmentary rubble plinth, 16-pane sashes with projecting sills, and a blocked 2-light mullioned window on the first floor, along with a 19th-century doorway to the rear. The right wing's return is also two stories with two windows, featuring two blocked 2-light mullioned windows on the front and a sash inserted into a similar window at the rear. At the rear, there is a massive external stack with offsets in the center. The left wing has two blocked windows in chamfered surrounds and a blocked 2-light mullioned window in the attic. There is a 19th-century single-storey, 2-bay extension on the inner return of the right wing. Inside, there are two 17th-century eight-panel doors in the first-floor rooms.

Local climate

Ulnaby 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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