Castle Garden Walls South of Forecourt of Witton Castle is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Garden walls.

Castle Garden Walls South of Forecourt of Witton Castle

WRENN ID
vacant-bastion-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Garden walls
Address
Castle Garden Walls South of Forecourt of Witton Castle, Sloshes Lane, Evenwood and Barony
OS grid reference
NZ 153 303
Coordinates
54.66825, -1.76322
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls south of the forecourt of Witton Castle are likely from the late 17th century. They are constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with a brick inner layer and feature flat stone coping and brick dressings. The walls form a square enclosure, with a short north wall attached to the west corner of the forecourt wall, which serves as the northern boundary of the garden. Blocked Tudor-arched doors at the south ends of both the west and east walls have surrounds made of two courses of headers and lugged brick jambs. Additionally, low blocked flue exits on the south wall indicate that it may have been a heated wall, although the outer face is obscured by 20th-century greenhouses.

Local climate

Castle Garden Walls South of Forecourt of Witton Castle receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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