Walls and Piers Attached to Number 12 is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Garden wall, piers.

Walls and Piers Attached to Number 12

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
Garden wall, piers
OS grid reference
NZ 272 420
Coordinates
54.77245, -1.57741
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The structure consists of garden walls and piers attached to Number 12, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. The walls are made of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. In front of Number 12, chamfered dwarf walls end in square, pyramidal-coped piers that are connected to the projecting turrets of the house. To the south of the southern turret, there is a high garden wall made of eroded stone with a flat stone coping that encloses the garden area adjacent to Number 12.

Local climate

Walls and Piers Attached to Number 12 receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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