Orangery C.200 Metres North-West of Bridge Over Forthburn Beck is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1952. Orangery.
Orangery C.200 Metres North-West of Bridge Over Forthburn Beck
- WRENN ID
- stranded-stone-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1952
- Type
- Orangery
- OS grid reference
- NZ 081 198
- Coordinates
- 54.57386, -1.87519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The orangery, located approximately 200 metres north-west of the bridge over Forthburn Beck, was built in 1879 by J. Watson. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar with a rear of coursed squared sandstone and was roofless at the time of the survey. The structure is a single storey with seven bays, featuring a Tuscan arcade. The central arch is higher and has missing doors, while there is a balustraded parapet on a deep cornice, adorned with garlanded urns above each column. The returns have a similar two-bay arcade, with the rear arches being blind. There is a skeletal iron structure intended for a hipped roof, which has spear finials, but the covering was missing. The rear of the building shows fragments of a pent glass-house. Inside, there are seven full-height groups of iron rods designed to support plants. The orangery was empty and derelict at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Orangery C.200 Metres North-West of Bridge Over Forthburn Beck receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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