Harelaw Watering Place is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Watering place.
Harelaw Watering Place
- WRENN ID
- pitched-niche-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1987
- Type
- Watering place
- Address
- Harelaw Watering Place, North Road, Stanley
- OS grid reference
- NZ 159 529
- Coordinates
- 54.87083, -1.75305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harelaw Watering Place is a spring head that possibly dates back to the 17th century. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone and features a pyramid shape approximately one metre high, with a rounded point. There is an opening on the south side that has a low segmental arch cut into the lintel. Additionally, there is a hole in the lintel on the right side, which may have held a chain.
Local climate
Harelaw Watering Place receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% 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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