Gazebo in Garden of Fawnlees House, with Walls Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Gazebo.
Gazebo in Garden of Fawnlees House, with Walls Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- bitter-entrance-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Gazebo
- OS grid reference
- NZ 062 384
- Coordinates
- 54.74124, -1.90517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gazebo in the garden of Fawnlees House dates from the mid-18th century and is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with tooled ashlar dressings. It features a stone-flagged roof with stone copings and a finial. The adjoining wall is made of coursed rubble with a flat coping. The gazebo is two storeys high and has one bay.
On the ground floor, there is an arched recess facing the garden, which has rusticated voussoirs, a keystone, and impost blocks on rusticated jambs. The first-floor round-headed window has a similar surround and broad intersecting glazing bars. Quoins in a similar style are present only on the first floor. The roof is pyramidal and hipped with swept eaves, featuring stone kneelers above the eaves on each ridge, and is topped with a large acorn finial and a pennant-shaped bronze wind-vane.
Inside the recess, there is a stone bench, and in front of it stands an oval stone pedestal table. The stepped walls flanking the gazebo continue around the vegetable garden at the rear, which includes a heated wall.
Local climate
Gazebo in Garden of Fawnlees House, with Walls Adjoining receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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