Leat at Sharnberry Mine, Containing Sharnberry Beck is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Leat.

Leat at Sharnberry Mine, Containing Sharnberry Beck

WRENN ID
nether-kitchen-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1987
Type
Leat
Address
Leat at Sharnberry Mine, Containing Sharnberry Beck, Eggleston
OS grid reference
NZ 012 307
Coordinates
54.67216, -1.98228
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The leat at Sharnberry Mine, which contains Sharnberry Beck, is a structure likely built in the mid-19th century for the London Lead Company. It features retaining walls made of roughly-coursed and squared sandstone, constructed without mortar. The walls stand approximately one metre high from the surface of the water to ground level and channel Sharnberry Beck for about 40 metres, extending from the point where a boundary fence crosses the stream to a location about 10 metres south of the retaining wall and level entrance.

Local climate

Leat at Sharnberry Mine, Containing Sharnberry Beck sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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