Byre and Attached Cart Shed 40 Metres North of Walker Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Byre, cart shed.
Byre and Attached Cart Shed 40 Metres North of Walker Hall
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-landing-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Byre, cart shed
- OS grid reference
- NZ 129 171
- Coordinates
- 54.54934, -1.80148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a byre with an attached cart shed located 40 metres north of Walker Hall, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of snecked sandstone with dressed window surrounds and features pantiled roofs with a double row of sandstone flags at the eaves.
The byre is two storeys high and consists of four bays. On the ground floor, there is a pair of boarded doors slightly left of centre, an external stone staircase, a boarded door, and a 20th-century opening to the right. To the left, there is another boarded door and a hit-and-miss window set in a raised, keyed, round-arched surround. The first floor has a boarded door in the third bay from the left, a four-pane horizontal sliding sash window in a similar round-arched surround to the right, and two hit-and-miss windows in similar surrounds to the left. The roof features coped gables with shaped kneelers.
The cart shed is a single storey with three bays. It has a central doorway with a lowered lintel and single breathers to the left and right. The right return includes a rebated, round-arched opening with tooled voussoirs and a pair of boarded doors. The roof has a coped gable on the right side.
Local climate
Byre and Attached Cart Shed 40 Metres North of Walker 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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