Basin to South of Bowes Museum is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1994. Basin.

Basin to South of Bowes Museum

WRENN ID
brooding-plinth-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1994
Type
Basin
Address
Basin to South of Bowes Museum, Newgate, Barnard Castle
OS grid reference
NZ 055 162
Coordinates
54.54151, -1.91577
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The basin to the south of Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle was built around 1885 by J. Pellechet for J. Bowes. It features raised bed walls made of ashlar, approximately 0.7 meters high, and is rectangular in shape with semicircular apsidal ends on the east and west sides. A bandstand once occupied the center of the raised bed. The walls are deeply moulded and topped with wide flat coping.

Local climate

Basin to South of Bowes Museum receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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