Kitchen Garden Wall and Garden House at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Garden wall and garden house.
Kitchen Garden Wall and Garden House at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw
- WRENN ID
- seventh-wall-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Garden wall and garden house
- Address
- Kitchen Garden Wall and Garden House at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, Esh, DH7 9BL
- OS grid reference
- NZ 221 439
- Coordinates
- 54.78965, -1.6566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The kitchen garden wall and garden house at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, were built in 1864, as indicated by the date above the door. The structure features coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar copings and dressings, while the roof of the garden house is made of large Welsh slates.
The garden wall has a rectangular plan, with the west wall connected to a ball court. This west wall includes a chamfered segmental vehicle entrance with double boarded doors, and there is a low-relief date panel above the arch. To the right, there is a pedestrian door styled similarly. The flat stone coping tops this wall, while the other walls feature roll-moulded coping.
At the north-west corner, the garden house stands two storeys tall and consists of one bay. It has a doorway in the east wall and cross windows with glazing bars facing the garden. Similar windows are present in half-dormers under a high pyramidal roof, which has a north chimney and a lead finial. The interior of the garden house has not been inspected.
Local climate
Kitchen Garden Wall and Garden House at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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