Vicarage of St Mary Magdalene with Yard Wall and Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1975. Vicarage.
Vicarage of St Mary Magdalene with Yard Wall and Gateway
- WRENN ID
- silver-attic-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1975
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- Vicarage of St Mary Magdalene with Yard Wall and Gateway, Broomside Lane, Belmont
- OS grid reference
- NZ 305 436
- Coordinates
- 54.78644, -1.52622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage of St Mary Magdalene, along with its yard wall and gateway, was built between 1861 and 1862 by the architectural firm Walton and Robson from Durham and London. The building is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and a plinth, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The Gothic-style vicarage features a main block that is two storeys high with two bays under front gables. To the left is a service wing that has two lower storeys and two bays, while a one-storey extension also to the left has two bays.
The entrance includes a boarded door with forked strap hinges, set in a two-centred-arched surround beneath a drip mould. The entrance hall window features plate tracery and is a two-light window, with a similar window above the entrance. The right bay has a canted bay window with a steeply-pitched hipped roof, and above it is a blank space except for a quatrefoil in the gable peak. A flush ashlar band runs along the first-floor sill level, interrupted by the bay window. The service wing has two-light stone-mullioned windows in the left bay and a single light window on the first floor to the right. The one-storey extension has vehicle doors and two single light windows. The roof is adorned with steeply-coped ridge chimneys.
On the right return, there are two bays with trefoil heads on the two-light windows in the left bay, and a projecting bow in the right bay features shouldered heads on three two-light windows. The first-floor ashlar band continues from the front, and all windows are fitted with sloping stone sills.
At the rear, a flat-coped wall approximately one metre high leads up to the gateway and continues to connect with outbuildings. The wrought iron gate is designed with scrolls of baroque character.
Local climate
Vicarage of St Mary Magdalene with Yard Wall and Gateway receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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