Entrance Screen to Startforth Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Entrance screen.

Entrance Screen to Startforth Hall

WRENN ID
carved-merlon-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Entrance screen
Address
Entrance Screen to Startforth Hall, High Startforth
OS grid reference
NZ 045 158
Coordinates
54.53814, -1.93089
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance screen to Startforth Hall dates from the mid-18th century, with 19th-century upper parts added to the main piers and gates. It features ashlar piers and squared stone quadrant walls topped with cut coping, along with wrought-iron gates. The gate piers are rusticated, with a chamfered plinth and a later panelled block beneath a moulded capital that has a cross-gabled top. The double gates have a downswept top and arched lower rails, supported by lancehead uprights. The quadrant walls, which have low gabled coping, include lower end piers capped with pyramidal tops.

Local climate

Entrance Screen to Startforth Hall 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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