Greenlaws East Level Portal Arch at Middle Level Mine is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Industrial.
Greenlaws East Level Portal Arch at Middle Level Mine
- WRENN ID
- standing-render-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Greenlaws East Level Portal Arch at Middle Level Mine, Stanhope
- OS grid reference
- NY 888 369
- Coordinates
- 54.72733, -2.17441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Greenlaws East Level Portal Arch at Middle Level Mine is a portal arch for a lead mine level, dating from around 1860. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone and features a canted retaining wall that stands about 1.5 meters high, which contains a horseshoe-shaped arch.
Local climate
Greenlaws East Level Portal Arch at Middle Level Mine sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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