Bastion 30 Metres South of Brancepeth Castle is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Bastion.
Bastion 30 Metres South of Brancepeth Castle
- WRENN ID
- inner-gutter-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- Bastion
- OS grid reference
- NZ 223 376
- Coordinates
- 54.73329, -1.65516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bastion, located 30 metres south of Brancepeth Castle, is an early to mid-19th century garden feature. It is constructed of dressed sandstone and features tooled ashlar coping. The bastion has a semicircular plan and is built into the steep side of a valley. It includes a slightly projecting embattled parapet with chamfered coping and short return walls at each end. This structure is included for its group value with the nearby castle.
Local climate
Bastion 30 Metres South of Brancepeth Castle receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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