Wall of Former Rectory Garden and Retaining Wall to Stanhope Caravan Site is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Garden wall.

Wall of Former Rectory Garden and Retaining Wall to Stanhope Caravan Site

WRENN ID
over-arch-owl
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
Wall of Former Rectory Garden and Retaining Wall to Stanhope Caravan Site, the Butts
OS grid reference
NY 997 390
Coordinates
54.74655, -2.00586
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The wall enclosing the garden of the former rectory and serving as a retaining wall for the ground to the west of the rectory is located on the east side of the former garden in Stanhope. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a ramped flat stone coping. The retaining wall includes a keyed arched recess with voussoirs.

Local climate

Wall of Former Rectory Garden and Retaining Wall to Stanhope Caravan Site sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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