East Entrance Screen to Rokeby Park, with Attached Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Entrance screen.
East Entrance Screen to Rokeby Park, with Attached Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-gutter-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Entrance screen
- OS grid reference
- NZ 085 132
- Coordinates
- 54.51436, -1.86884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The east entrance screen to Rokeby Park, along with its attached walls and railings, dates from the early 19th century and is designed in the Greek revival style. The screen is constructed of ashlar stone, while the side walls are made of squared stone with cut coping. The gates and railings are made of cast iron.
The entrance features double gates with moulded spike tops on the uprights at both levels, curved lower rails, and downswept tops. Similar railings connect to the screen walls. The walls are adorned with end pilasters, with the outer pilaster being double width, a plinth, a Greek Key frieze, a coved cornice, and a central square-headed opening that has a gate on the right and railings on the left.
To the left, there is a 20-metre low wall with arched coping that supports spearhead railings, although some tops are missing. On the right, a similar wall extends to the end pier of Greta Bridge.
The original gate piers from 1725 were relocated in the early 19th century to support the railed screen alongside the A66.
Local climate
East Entrance Screen to Rokeby Park, with Attached Walls and Railings 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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