Wall with Bee Boles and Privy Adjoining Viewly Grange Farmhouse on North is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1988. Garden wall.

Wall with Bee Boles and Privy Adjoining Viewly Grange Farmhouse on North

WRENN ID
noble-plinth-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 January 1988
Type
Garden wall
OS grid reference
NZ 271 471
Coordinates
54.81828, -1.57853
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a garden wall with bee boles and an earth closet, dating from the early 19th century, located north of Viewly Grange farmhouse. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with large quoins and ashlar dressings. The wall is L-shaped and high, continuing the line of the house and returning along the garden boundary. The former earth closet is situated at the end farthest from the house and features a pantiled roof. There are flat stone lintels above a boarded door that aligns with the house, as well as a similar door for the earth closet. A row of five rectangular bee boles, now blocked and with some sill stones removed, is set into the center of the long wall, with a large block at the foot of each outer jamb. Behind the wall, there is a pent roof over the earth closet, although the fittings have been removed.

Local climate

Wall with Bee Boles and Privy Adjoining Viewly Grange Farmhouse on North receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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