Flight of Steps with Flanking Wall and Retaining Wall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Steps with flanking wall.
Flight of Steps with Flanking Wall and Retaining Wall
- WRENN ID
- quiet-baluster-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Steps with flanking wall
- Address
- Flight of Steps with Flanking Wall and Retaining Wall, Prospect Terrace, Eggleston, DL12 0AR
- OS grid reference
- NY 995 241
- Coordinates
- 54.61294, -2.00874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The flight of steps with flanking wall and retaining wall provides pedestrian access to a terrace of houses and was built in the mid-19th century for the London Lead Company. The structure features coursed dry sandstone rubble walls, wrought-iron posts, and a handrail, along with ashlar steps. It consists of a long curved flight of steps leading from a lane to the west of Prospect Terrace. There is a wall approximately 4 meters high at the lane, topped with a flat stone lintel over the entrance to the steps. A retaining wall of the same height is located on the east side of the steps, both walls having rubble coping. A plain round-section handrail is attached to the east wall by iron eyes and two posts. This structure is a notable example of dry stone construction.
Local climate
Flight of Steps with Flanking Wall and Retaining Wall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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