Smelt Mill Flue Chimney About 50 Metres East of Spikehead Dam is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Chimney.
Smelt Mill Flue Chimney About 50 Metres East of Spikehead Dam
- WRENN ID
- knotted-pavement-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Chimney
- OS grid reference
- NY 958 465
- Coordinates
- 54.81416, -2.06608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a lead smelt mill flue chimney located about 50 metres east of Spikehead Dam. It is constructed from millstone grit that is coursed and roughly squared, with yellow brick used for the upper courses. The chimney stands approximately 20 metres tall and tapers as it rises. It features a high plinth that contains a segmental arch made with voussoirs. The upper courses of brick are damaged as noted during the survey.
Local climate
Smelt Mill Flue Chimney About 50 Metres East of Spikehead Dam sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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