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

Walls, Piers and Gate Flanking Drive to Egglestone Hall Rear Yard

WRENN ID
grim-arch-soot
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, Piers and Gate Flanking Drive to Egglestone Hall Rear Yard, B6281
OS grid reference
NY 998 233
Coordinates
54.60539, -2.00361
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls, piers, and gate flanking the drive to the rear yard of Eggleston Hall are likely from the late 18th century. They are constructed of coursed squared sandstone in a dry construction method, featuring ashlar dressings and piers. The north wall curves around the graveyard to the west and continues as a garden wall, standing approximately one metre high with gently-rounded stone coping. The railings have been removed. In the center of the garden, there are two square piers with domed pyramidal tops that flank a later scrolled gate and support a simple curved overthrow. Steps curve from these piers into the garden, flanked by curved retaining walls that match the height of the drive wall. The south wall, designed in a similar style, curves to flank the steps leading to the garden, with the ends of the returns featuring flat-coped low square piers.

Local climate

Walls, Piers and Gate Flanking Drive to Egglestone Hall Rear Yard 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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