Gazebo and Garden Wall Adjoining the West Wing, Holywell Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Gazebo and garden wall.

Gazebo and Garden Wall Adjoining the West Wing, Holywell Hall

WRENN ID
stony-railing-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Gazebo and garden wall
OS grid reference
NZ 250 373
Coordinates
54.73034, -1.613
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gazebo and garden wall adjoining the west wing of Holywell Hall date from the mid to late 18th century. The garden wall is made of narrow hand-made bricks arranged in an irregular English garden wall bond. The south-west wall of the gazebo is constructed from hand-made brick, while the rest is made of coursed rubble with squared quoins. The wall stands approximately 3.5 metres tall and extends about 60 metres south-west from the west wing of Holywell Hall. It features brick coping and regularly spaced buttresses on the south side, with part of it rebuilt in engineering brick near the junction with the gazebo.

The gazebo itself is a low, two-storey structure with a square plan. It has a large blocked Venetian window on the south-west face, which is topped with a stone key and lintels over the side lights. There is a 20th-century vehicle opening on the north-east side and a wooden ladder-stair leading to a first-floor doorway on the south-east side. The parapet has moulded coping and is slightly ramped up at the corners. The gazebo is currently roofless. The wall and gazebo are included for their group value, although a one-storey addition on the south-east of the gazebo is not considered of special interest. At the time of the survey, the structures were derelict.

Local climate

Gazebo and Garden Wall Adjoining the West Wing, Holywell Hall 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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