The Battery in Wharton Park is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Military structure. 5 related planning applications.
The Battery in Wharton Park
- WRENN ID
- veiled-lantern-equinox
- 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
- Military structure
- Address
- The Battery in Wharton Park, North Road, City of Durham, DH1 4RS
- OS grid reference
- NZ 269 427
- Coordinates
- 54.77926, -1.58318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Battery in Wharton Park is a belvedere and gun emplacement built in 1858 as a gift to the city from W.L. Wharton, which features a Latin inscription on its inner face. It consists of a coursed squared sandstone retaining wall with ashlar parapets. The structure has two platforms connected by a walkway, with battlemented parapets that are stepped at the left turret and a corbelled walkway, all topped with chamfered copings.
Local climate
The Battery in Wharton Park 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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