Walls, Outbuilding and Railings to South of Ovington Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1987. Outbuilding.
Walls, Outbuilding and Railings to South of Ovington Hall
- WRENN ID
- hollow-dormer-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1987
- Type
- Outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- NZ 129 146
- Coordinates
- 54.52728, -1.80069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure consists of garden walls, an outbuilding, and railings located to the south of Ovington Hall, dating from the mid-18th century. The materials include rubble with cut dressings, a stone slate roof on the outbuilding, and wrought-iron railings.
The east wall rises to 4 metres and features chamfered coping, with a curved step leading up to a boarded door. This door is set within a rusticated arch that includes imposts and a keystone. To the south, there is a low pent outbuilding that has a blocked stone-surround window and a 6-panel door in a raised stone surround, located on the internal face of the wall.
The south wall stands at 1 metre high and has similar coping that ramps up at each end, supporting low spiked railings. Near the east end, there is a gateway flanked by small rusticated piers topped with banded pyramidal caps.
The west wall is 2.5 metres high and features a boarded door in a raised stone surround. The northern part of this wall steps in, where an old privy is located at the angle before it connects to the south-west corner of the Hall.
The attached farm buildings on the exterior of the west wall are not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
Walls, Outbuilding and Railings to South of Ovington Hall receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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