Middle Level Lead Mine Water Race and Steps and Retaining Wall at Dressing Floor is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Mining infrastructure.

Middle Level Lead Mine Water Race and Steps and Retaining Wall at Dressing Floor

WRENN ID
hushed-fireplace-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Mining infrastructure
Address
Middle Level Lead Mine Water Race and Steps and Retaining Wall at Dressing Floor, Greenlaws, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NY 889 369
Coordinates
54.72785, -2.17303
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Middle Level Lead Mine water race, steps, and retaining wall at the dressing floor were built around 1868 for the Blackett-Beaumont Lead Mining Company. The structure features coursed squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The main wall is approximately 4 metres high and 12 metres long, with a flight of stone steps recessed into the bank at the left end. An elliptical arch with voussoirs spans the water race. Additionally, the retaining walls, which are about 1.5 metres high and 10 metres long, contain the water race.

Local climate

Middle Level Lead Mine Water Race and Steps and Retaining Wall at Dressing Floor 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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