Gunroom on North of Rokeby Park Rear Court is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Gunroom.

Gunroom on North of Rokeby Park Rear Court

WRENN ID
seventh-clay-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Gunroom
OS grid reference
NZ 082 142
Coordinates
54.52322, -1.8736
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gunroom located to the north of the rear court at Rokeby Park is a detached structure from the mid-19th century. It is built of tooled-and-margined ashlar stone and features a graduated Lakeland slate roof. The building is single-storey and consists of two bays. The central entrance has a six-panel door with an overlight, and it is flanked by renewed twelve-pane sash windows that have steeply-sloped sills. The roof is hip-ended with overhanging wavy eaves and is topped with a wrought-iron ridge finial.

Local climate

Gunroom on North of Rokeby Park Rear Court receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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