Pound Behind School House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Cattle pound.
Pound Behind School House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-steeple-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1987
- Type
- Cattle pound
- Address
- Pound Behind School House, Front Street
- OS grid reference
- NZ 103 553
- Coordinates
- 54.89316, -1.8408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pound Behind School House is a cattle pound located on the south side of Front Street in Ebchester. It likely dates from the 18th century and is a rectangular enclosure formed by a boundary wall on the north side, with stone posts on the east and south sides. The west side, which faces the School House, currently has no barrier. There are three tapered stone posts on the east and five on the south, each featuring three square recesses for wooden rails, with some posts having rounded tops. The sandstone rubble wall on the north side stands about one metre high, while the posts are approximately 12 cm high. Historically, this site was significant as the drove road passed nearby, allowing drovers to pen their animals here overnight.
Local climate
Pound Behind School House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% 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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