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© Mr Brian Wilcockson ARPS
IoE Number:
408281
Location:
BAAL HILL HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DODD HILL LANE (west off)
WOLSINGHAM, WEAR VALLEY, DURHAM
Photographer:
Mr Brian Wilcockson ARPS
Date Photographed:
03 September 1999
Date listed:
31 January 1967
Date of last amendment:
31 January 1967
Grade
II
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WOLSINGHAM DODD HILL LANE
NZ 03 NE
(West side, off)
Wolsingham
22/354 Baal Hill House
31.1.67 Farmhouse
GV II
Bastlehouse. Late C16 with additions and alterations. Thinly-rendered
sandstone rubble with irregular quoins; stone-flagged roof with stone gable
copings and stone and brick chimneys; Welsh slate roofs on front additions.
2 storeys raised to 3; 2 wide bays; one-storey front pent additions at each
end. Right wing 2 storeys, 3 bays. Main house has long, wide flight of stone
steps, with flat-coped side walls, to wide first-floor stone-walled porch,
renewed double door and single inner door. Pent additions flank steps. First
floor has C20 casements; second-floor 3-light casement at left. Right wing has
3 doors under flat stone lintels, and varied windows:- sashes, one horizontal
casement, and fixedlight; 3 small square blocked windows at eaves. Left return
has 2-centred-arched chamfered stone doorway, partly blocked and with Dutch
door inserted; right return (of wing) has side steps to first-floor door under
pigeon holes in gable peak. Interior: ground floor divided by stone wall;
blocked 2-centred arch in right gable; barrel vault with possible ladder-hole
beside left door. Boarded dado in first-floor entrance hall; stop-chamfered
beams in first-floor rooms.
Source: Conyers Surtees History of the Parish of Wolsingham 1929, pp 42-3.
C17 door now re-used in sheep pen.