Gardener's House in Walled Garden is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. A 18th century Estate house.
Gardener's House in Walled Garden
- WRENN ID
- twisted-jade-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Estate house
- Address
- Gardener's House in Walled Garden, Raby with Keverstone
- OS grid reference
- NZ 127 220
- Coordinates
- 54.59326, -1.80462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gardener's House in the walled garden at Raby Park is an estate house built in the third quarter of the 18th century. It features pebbledash render with ashlar dressings, while the rear wings are constructed from pinkish sandstone rubble with quoins and brick. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and the house is designed in a Gothick style.
The building is one storey high with three bays and a two-bay extension on the left. The front has an embattled design with a gabled projecting center that includes a pointed-arched half-glazed door set within a wider pointed arch. There is a dentilled cornice string at the base of the gable peak, which is interrupted by a pointed-arched attic window. The outer bays have parapets that extend from the gable and contain a Y-traceried window on the right and a sash window with glazing bars on the left. The left extension features a similar sash window and an inserted door.
The roof is not visible from the front, but there is a banded ashlar chimney at the rear.
Local climate
Gardener's House in Walled Garden receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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