Garden and Yard Walls at Old Park Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. Garden and yard walls.
Garden and Yard Walls at Old Park Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- far-jamb-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- Garden and yard walls
- Address
- Garden and Yard Walls at Old Park Hall Farmhouse, Spennymoor
- OS grid reference
- NZ 231 330
- Coordinates
- 54.69241, -1.64257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden and yard walls at Old Park Hall Farmhouse are listed as a significant structure. They date mostly from the early 18th century and include a medieval ruin. The walls are constructed from sandstone rubble, with ashlar dressings and quoins, and feature brick and render coping on the garden wall that faces the road.
The garden wall has a polygonal shape and includes a gateway at the southeast that leads from the field. Attached to the southeast of the garden wall is the yard wall, which is L-shaped. This wall has piers on either side of the entrance to the field on the west side, and it incorporates the ruins of the house on the south side. The garden wall stands approximately 2.5 meters high and has irregular flat stone coping, with quoins at each corner. At the southeast corner, there is a Tudor-arched chamfered gateway with alternate-block jambs and a large, tooled lintel.
The yard wall features two square piers with rebated inner edges in the western section. The southern section of the yard wall is one meter high and includes a wide rectangular chamfered window with holes for horizontal bars, which is a remnant from the manor house.
Local climate
Garden and Yard Walls at Old Park Hall Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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