Walls in Front of Townfield Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Garden wall.
Walls in Front of Townfield Cottages
- WRENN ID
- south-lancet-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Walls in Front of Townfield Cottages, Hunstanworth, DH8 9UP
- OS grid reference
- NY 951 483
- Coordinates
- 54.82984, -2.07775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls in front of Townfield Cottages were built around 1863 by S.S. Teulon for Rev. Daniel Capper. They are made of dry sandstone rubble with stone flag jambs and stand about 80 cm high. The walls feature round coping and enclose the front of the cottages, curving around the north side of the gardens. Each house has round-topped stone flag gate jambs and wooden gates.
Local climate
Walls in Front of Townfield Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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