Walls and Piers in Front of Number 30 and 32 is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Walls and piers.
Walls and Piers in Front of Number 30 and 32
- WRENN ID
- scarred-quartz-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1987
- Type
- Walls and piers
- Address
- Walls and Piers in Front of Number 30 and 32, Front Street
- OS grid reference
- NZ 172 569
- Coordinates
- 54.9073, -1.73219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls and piers in front of numbers 30 and 32 on Front Street in Burnopfield are Grade II listed structures, dating from around 1840. These walls and piers enclose the gardens of the houses and are constructed from sandstone rubble and brick, featuring ashlar coping and ashlar piers.
At number 30, there are quadrant rubble walls that flank renewed steps on the left, which are situated between upper square chamfered piers with chamfered coping. There is also a square pier with low pointed coping at the front of the right quadrant, adjacent to the front rubble wall that has round coping.
Number 32 features rubble front walls that are ramped on the left and topped with flat stone coping. It has three square piers with low pointed coping, two of which flank central steps, while one is located at the right end. Additionally, there is a ramped brick wall between the gardens that also has flat stone coping.
Local climate
Walls and Piers in Front of Number 30 and 32 receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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