Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1994. School. 5 related planning applications.
Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy
- WRENN ID
- cold-rood-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1994
- Type
- School
- Address
- Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy, South Church Road, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7LB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 212 293
- Coordinates
- 54.65905, -1.6719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls, piers, gates, and railings at King James I Academy, formerly known as King James I School, were built in 1910 for Durham County Council. They are made of coursed squared stone with ashlar coping and feature wrought-iron railings and a gate. Low walls with flat stone coping run along the front of the garden to the lodge and continue to the entrance of the drive. Tall square piers of coursed squared stone are located at either end of the lodge garden, at the drive entrance, and at the terminating entrance wall to the south. These piers have ashlar plinths and flat stone coping. The drive entrance piers are set diagonally and have corniced coping topped with stone ball finials. The railings connecting the piers are in sections with a ramped top rail divided by lattice panels. The gate to the lodge features posts in lattice work, and the lower part of the gate has cross bracing.
Local climate
Walls, piers, gates and railings to King James I Academy receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% 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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