Churchyard Walls and Hearse House to North of Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Walls, hearse house.

Churchyard Walls and Hearse House to North of Church of St Thomas

WRENN ID
quiet-kitchen-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Walls, hearse house
Address
Churchyard Walls and Hearse House to North of Church of St Thomas, Back Lane, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NY 996 392
Coordinates
54.7485, -2.00621
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The churchyard walls and hearse house, located to the north of the Church of St. Thomas, date from the early 19th century. They are constructed from roughly-coursed sandstone rubble and feature a stone-flagged roof. The eastern wall is approximately 2 meters high and has gabled coping, running along the north side of the churchyard and connecting to the north wall of the hearse house. The hearse house itself is a single-storey building that is mostly blank, except for boarded carriage doors set in a round-arched opening on the west face. The set-back western wall rises to about 3 meters high with flat coping, linking to the southwest corner of the hearse house and continuing along the north side of the churchyard.

Local climate

Churchyard Walls and Hearse House to North of Church of St Thomas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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