Ha Ha Wall and Gates to East and South East of Barningham Park is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Garden feature.
Ha Ha Wall and Gates to East and South East of Barningham Park
- WRENN ID
- standing-baluster-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Garden feature
- OS grid reference
- NZ 086 102
- Coordinates
- 54.48719, -1.86769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ha-ha wall and gates located to the east and south-east of Barningham Park date from the 18th century. Constructed from squared stone with cut dressings, the wall curves from the east end of the kitchen wing to a gate leading into the wood, with an adjacent gateway connecting the wood and deer park. The ha-ha continues south, running alongside garden terraces to the south-east corner of the garden.
The northern section of the ha-ha wall features chamfered coping and a gateway with small rusticated piers topped with ball finials. The second section has segmental-arched coping extending to the gate into the wood. Octagonal monolith piers support a wrought-iron gate, with six steps leading down between flat-coped walls. The adjacent gateway has massive roughly-arched monolith piers that hold double gates with fleur-de-lys tops on the bars and dogbars. The southern part of the wall, which runs steeply uphill, does not have coping.
Local climate
Ha Ha Wall and Gates to East and South East of Barningham Park receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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