Cistern at Nz 2221 5390, 800 Metres West of Park Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1994. Cistern.
Cistern at Nz 2221 5390, 800 Metres West of Park Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- wild-thatch-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1994
- Type
- Cistern
- OS grid reference
- NZ 222 308
- Coordinates
- 54.67266, -1.65677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cistern located 800 metres west of Park Head Farmhouse, dating from the mid-18th century, with a 20th-century addition and alteration. The structure is made of ashlar stone, featuring a brick addition from the 20th century. The cistern consists of an ashlar-lined pit that measures 1 metre square and is two-thirds of a metre deep, with its sides raised in yellow brick. On the west side, there is an ashlar channel carved from solid stone that leads to a stone sink. The sink has rebates on the top and an iron bar that is leaded into one side, which originally fastened across the centre. Nearby, there are additional scattered ashlar channel blocks, and the paved surround of the cistern is broken and dislodged. Water from this cistern flowed to the pyramidal Well Head, located 100 metres to the west. This structure is an important remnant of the 18th-century water supply system for the Bishop of Durham's Palace at Auckland Castle.
Local climate
Cistern at Nz 2221 5390, 800 Metres West of Park Head Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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