Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to North of Egglestone Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Garden wall.

Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to North of Egglestone Hall

WRENN ID
nether-gravel-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1987
Type
Garden wall
Address
Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to North of Egglestone Hall, B6281
OS grid reference
NY 997 234
Coordinates
54.60638, -2.00471
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls, gate piers, and gates to the north of Eggleston Hall are a Grade II listed structure, likely built in the late 18th century for Timothy Hutchinson. The garden wall is made of coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings and features two piers and wrought iron gates. The wall stands approximately 3 metres high, has a battered design, and is topped with inward-tilted flat stone coping, forming the boundary along the north and west sides of an irregularly-shaped garden. There are flat stone lintels above three boarded doors, with one located on the west side and two on the north side.

The entrance to the churchyard is positioned at right angles to the south end of the west wall and features two banded domed piers. The westernmost pier is attached to a curved wall that is about 4 metres long and 1 metre high. The gates are adorned with spike-headed uprights and urn finials. Historically, the churchyard was noted to be part of Timothy Hutchinson's botanic garden, as referenced in Mackenzie and Ross's "Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View of Durham" published in 1834.

Local climate

Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to North of Egglestone Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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