Front Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Garden wall.

Front Garden Walls

WRENN ID
unlit-railing-brook
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 wall
Address
Front Garden Walls, Abbey Lane, Egglestone Abbey
OS grid reference
NZ 061 150
Coordinates
54.53094, -1.90671
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The front garden walls at Abbey Farmhouse, likely built around 1800, are constructed from roughly-squared stone and topped with flat slab coping. The walls stand about 1 metre high on the north and east sides of the garden, featuring a central gate in the eastern section. These walls are included for their group value. The farmbuilding located to the south of the garden is not considered of special interest.

Local climate

Front Garden Walls 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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