Front Garden Wall at the Old Manor House Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Garden wall.
Front Garden Wall at the Old Manor House Hotel
- WRENN ID
- open-flue-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Front Garden Wall at the Old Manor House Hotel, Front Street, West Auckland
- OS grid reference
- NZ 179 263
- Coordinates
- 54.63182, -1.72355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The front garden wall at The Old Manor House Hotel, formerly known as the front garden wall at West Auckland Hall, dates from the early 18th century and features 20th-century railings. It is constructed from coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and piers, complemented by rubble return walls and cast-iron railings. The front wall has a segmental ashlar coping and is flanked by tall rusticated square ashlar piers with swept coping at both ends, which frame vehicle and pedestrian gates located to the left and right of the center, as well as at intermediate points. The right return wall along the lane leading to the rear yard has quoins on the left side, the return of the front pier, and irregular stone coping. The spear-headed railings, which are in a 19th-century style, were added in the 20th century, and the gates have been renewed in wood.
Local climate
Front Garden Wall at the Old Manor House Hotel receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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