Park Level Mine Shop is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Mine shop.
Park Level Mine Shop
- WRENN ID
- eastward-footing-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Mine shop
- Address
- Park Level Mine Shop, A689, Stanhope
- OS grid reference
- NY 825 430
- Coordinates
- 54.78236, -2.27211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Park Level Mine Shop is a building dating from around 1860, originally constructed for the Beaumont Company. It served as a mine shop, which included stables, a smithy, and sleeping accommodation for miners, along with an office. The building was restored around 1983 and is now used as a museum and display area. It is made of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a stone-flagged roof. The structure has two storeys and three windows, with boarded doors located between the ground-floor windows. All the windows have been renewed and feature external boarded shutters, each with flat stone lintels. The roof is topped with three ridge chimneys. On the left return gable, there are side steps leading to the first-floor sleeping accommodation. This building is included in the heritage listing for its historical significance as a relic of lead-mining practices in the dales.
Local climate
Park Level Mine Shop sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 76 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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