Garden Walls Enclosing Orchard and Garden South-East of Garden House, with Piers is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Garden wall.

Garden Walls Enclosing Orchard and Garden South-East of Garden House, with Piers

WRENN ID
shadowed-window-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Garden wall
Address
Garden Walls Enclosing Orchard and Garden South-East of Garden House, with Piers, Winston Road, Staindrop
OS grid reference
NZ 136 204
Coordinates
54.57914, -1.7906
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls and piers, located southeast of Garden House, date from the late 18th century. They are constructed of coursed squared sandstone with a brick inner layer, topped with ashlar coping and dressings. The long wall, approximately 4 meters high, stretches along Winston Road from Garden House to the driveway of No. 65, then curves along the north side of the garden of No. 65 before returning to the northwest where it is truncated. From the eastern corner of Garden House, the wall runs northeast to join No. 1 Beech Side, with a gap for the road that is flanked by piers.

The piers are square and the same height as the wall, featuring a banded plinth, a top string, and a cornice, with small convex-pyramid finials. The northern pier has likely been repositioned to accommodate the Beech Side road. There is a 19th-century garden gate next to the southern pier, which has resulted in an alteration to the wall at the gate. Additionally, there is a small boarded door in Winston Road beneath a wooden lintel. A diagonal brick wall, about 2.5 meters high, runs east-west and includes a stone-arched surround with voussoirs leading to a small blocked door.

Local climate

Garden Walls Enclosing Orchard and Garden South-East of Garden House, with Piers receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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