Wall South of Number 9 (Chorister School) is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Garden wall.
Wall South of Number 9 (Chorister School)
- WRENN ID
- third-spire-honey
- 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
- Garden wall
- Address
- Wall South of Number 9 (Chorister School), the College, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 272 419
- Coordinates
- 54.77188, -1.57797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure is a garden wall located south of Number 9, known as the Chorister School. This wall is possibly part of the city wall and dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and coursed squared sandstone, topped with flat stone coping. The lower section consists of thinner rubble, while the upper part is set back and made of larger rubble. The southern section features more regular masonry.
Local climate
Wall South of Number 9 (Chorister School) 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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