Gate Piers, Walls and Privies at Methold Houses is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. Gate piers and walls.
Gate Piers, Walls and Privies at Methold Houses
- WRENN ID
- wild-bracket-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1987
- Type
- Gate piers and walls
- Address
- Gate Piers, Walls and Privies at Methold Houses, Urpeth
- OS grid reference
- NZ 221 537
- Coordinates
- 54.87823, -1.65636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers, walls, and privies at Methold Houses were built in 1863 for John Eden and are constructed from dressed sandstone. The walls, which are 1.5 to 2.0 metres high, feature low triangular-section coping and enclose the grounds of Methold Houses. The design includes a rounded north-west corner and a driveway near the north-east corner, with short serpentine sections leading to a pair of gate piers in the west wall.
The tall, square-plan gate piers have chamfered corners with bar stops and moulded pyramidal caps. Each pier has sunk inscribed plaques, with "METHOLD HOUSES" on the north pier and "ERECTED 1863" on the south pier. There are four detached privies spaced regularly along the rear (east) wall. Each privy has two boarded doors beneath flush lintels and a flat-coped parapet that conceals a pent roof.
These structures are included for their group value, although altered stone sheds and later lean-to additions on the privies are not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Walls and Privies at Methold Houses 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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