Former Vicarage with Terrace Retaining Wall and Steps is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. A C19 House.

Former Vicarage with Terrace Retaining Wall and Steps

WRENN ID
riven-transept-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
House
Address
Former Vicarage with Terrace Retaining Wall and Steps, Hunstanworth
OS grid reference
NY 949 491
Coordinates
54.83701, -2.08055
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former vicarage, now a house, was built around 1863 by S.S. Teulon for Rev. Daniel Capper. It features coursed, squared sandstone of irregular sizes with ashlar dressings, and a roof made of dark blue slates with a slate-hung gable. The building is designed in an L-shape and has varied levels and heights. The south elevation includes a basement and one or two storeys with four bays. The main block on the right has a projecting entrance bay with a two-centred open arch on the right and a flatter two-centred window on the left, which is situated under a hipped corbelled oriel. The right corner has buttresses, and there is a Gothic-style door in the porch behind the arch, topped by a crow-stepped gable. The left bay is set back and consists of a basement and two storeys, featuring a two-centred-arched ground-floor window and square-headed windows above. The left bay is gabled, and most windows are sashes of late 19th-century style. The roof has crow-steps on the left return gable of the main block and a slate-hung gable on the left return of the service wing, which has a diagonally-set tall stone chimney on the left and a tall ridge chimney on the service wing.

An open arch contains low patterned wood gates. The rear elevation features a decorative wooden canopy over a partly-glazed door. The rear of the service wing includes a pig-sty with a stone feeding-trough in the wall and an owl-hole with a stone shelf in the shelter part. The area wall has stone flags set at the left end as steps to the basement, with flat coping. The retaining wall curves around the right corner of the house and has rounded coping, with upward-tilting steps curving down from the right end.

Local climate

Former Vicarage with Terrace Retaining Wall and Steps sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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