Garden Wall to South of Castle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. A 19th century Garden wall.
Garden Wall to South of Castle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rusted-brass-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Garden wall
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Garden Wall to South of Castle Farmhouse, Chapel Lane, Scargill
- OS grid reference
- NZ 053 107
- Coordinates
- 54.49204, -1.91963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden wall to the south of Castle Farmhouse is a 19th-century structure made of coursed sandstone rubble. The front section of the wall stands 1.5 meters high and features roughly-chamfered coping stones, with the ends slightly raked up. It has large alternating quoins and a pair of gate piers on the right side. The wall includes taller, raking return sections and doorways with boarded doors located near the junction with the house. This wall is included for its group value with the farmhouse.
Local climate
Garden Wall to South of Castle Farmhouse 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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