Garden Walls and Gateway with Fig-House Attached is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Garden walls, gateway.
Garden Walls and Gateway with Fig-House Attached
- WRENN ID
- floating-bronze-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden walls, gateway
- Address
- Garden Walls and Gateway with Fig-House Attached, Raby with Keverstone
- OS grid reference
- NZ 128 220
- Coordinates
- 54.5932, -1.80233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls and gateway with an attached fig-house are from the mid-18th century, with the gateway dated 1894 and transferred from Shipbourne in 1937. The walls and gateway are made of brick, featuring ashlar dressings and coping, while the right return is constructed from rubble. The brick, ashlar, and glass fig-house is located to the left of the central gateway. The serpentine front wall is approximately 230 meters long, with the central gateway and fig-house positioned to the left. The walls extend about 60 meters to the rear, except for the right return, which adjoins the former hunting stables, and the rear wall serves the central and right garden. The walls stand about 3 meters high and have flat stone coping, interrupted by a central Jacobean-style gateway that features a ball-finialled shaped gable. The gable displays a coat of arms, the initials EVB, and the date 1894. The fig-house to the left of the gateway has stone-coped walls that support a 19th-century greenhouse roof. There are round-headed stone arches at the right end of the front wall and in the inner walls near the front, as well as segmental-headed stone arches near the front of the returns.
Local climate
Garden Walls and Gateway with Fig-House Attached receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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