Garden Walls, Railings and Gate to Startforth Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Garden wall, gate, railing. 2 related planning applications.
Garden Walls, Railings and Gate to Startforth Lodge
- WRENN ID
- steep-stair-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Garden wall, gate, railing
- Address
- Garden Walls, Railings and Gate to Startforth Lodge, Low Startforth Road, DL12 9AU
- OS grid reference
- NZ 046 162
- Coordinates
- 54.54146, -1.93002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls, railings, and gate to Startforth Lodge were likely built in 1853. They are constructed from squared rubble with cut dressings and feature wrought iron elements. The low wall, which has chamfered coping, runs along the south and east sides of the garden and supports railings with spearhead standards, except for the northern part of the east side. There is a wrought-iron gate with scroll-topped detailing on the south, flanked by monolith arched piers. The taller wall on the west side has stepped flat coping and connects to the south-west corner of the house. A greenhouse located on the outer face of the west wall is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Garden Walls, Railings and Gate to Startforth Lodge 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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