Terrace Walls and Steps, and Heraldic Beasts, to South of Bowes Museum is a Grade I listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1994. A C1885 Terrace walls.
Terrace Walls and Steps, and Heraldic Beasts, to South of Bowes Museum
- WRENN ID
- bitter-pinnacle-owl
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1994
- Type
- Terrace walls
- Address
- Terrace Walls and Steps, and Heraldic Beasts, to South of Bowes Museum, Newgate, Barnard Castle
- OS grid reference
- NZ 055 162
- Coordinates
- 54.54167, -1.91552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The terrace walls and steps, along with heraldic beasts, located to the south of Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, were built around 1885 by J Pellechet for John Bowes. Constructed from ashlar, the rusticated walls support the terrace that runs the full length of the museum's main building, featuring two flights of side steps at each end. Similar retaining walls are found behind the second flights of steps. The front wall includes a blind arcade, with end and central arches leading to niches that are flanked by shallow stepped pilasters. All arches feature keyed heads and channelled voussoirs. The keys extend through the entablature, which supports a balustrade made of turned balusters and shallow piers, topped with corniced coping. There are matching balustrades at the front and blind end return balustrades on the steps. Approximately 2 meters behind the balustrade, there are two heraldic beasts, each about one meter high, holding shields.
Local climate
Terrace Walls and Steps, and Heraldic Beasts, to South of Bowes Museum 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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