Retaining Walls and Level Entrance at Sharnberry Mine is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. A Victorian Mine structure.
Retaining Walls and Level Entrance at Sharnberry Mine
- WRENN ID
- eastward-oriel-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Mine structure
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Retaining Walls and Level Entrance at Sharnberry Mine, Eggleston
- OS grid reference
- NZ 012 307
- Coordinates
- 54.67227, -1.98162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining walls and level entrance at Sharnberry Mine are features from a lead mine, likely built in the mid-19th century for the London Lead Company. They are constructed from roughly-coursed and squared sandstone rubble, with ashlar dressings. The retaining wall measures approximately 6 metres in length and 1.5 metres in height. At the right end, set back between the canted retaining walls, is an arch of irregular segmental shape made from voussoirs, which is located under another retaining wall that is also about 1.5 metres high, adjacent to the path leading to High Sharnberry.
Local climate
Retaining Walls and Level Entrance at Sharnberry Mine 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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