Garden Walls Gate Piers and Gates Adjoining South Front of Bowes Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Garden wall.

Garden Walls Gate Piers and Gates Adjoining South Front of Bowes Hall

WRENN ID
slow-pier-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Garden wall
OS grid reference
NY 996 135
Coordinates
54.51703, -2.00699
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls, gate piers, and gates adjoining the south front of Bowes Hall date from the mid-18th century. They consist of squared rubble walls and ashlar piers, with mid-19th century iron gates. The walls are 2.0 meters high and flat-coped, extending south for about 25 meters from the ends of the house. Shorter sections of the walls connect to the gate piers. The gate piers are square in plan, standing 3.5 meters high, featuring moulded plinths and single fielded panels on each face. They are topped with stepped and corniced caps that are crowned by stone urns. The gates have alternating bars and dogbars, finished with spear-head finials. This structure is included for its group value.

Local climate

Garden Walls Gate Piers and Gates Adjoining South Front of Bowes Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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