Erw Wen and Attached Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1973. House.
Erw Wen and Attached Garden Walls
- WRENN ID
- iron-turret-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Erw Wen and Attached Garden Walls, 2, Staindrop Road, West Auckland
- OS grid reference
- NZ 178 262
- Coordinates
- 54.6315, -1.72517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Erw Wen is a house with attached garden walls, built in the late 18th century, with a 20th-century addition. The structure features thin courses of squared sandstone, large quoins, and painted tooled ashlar dressings. The roof is made of thin artificial slates that mimic Welsh slate, complemented by stone gable copings and brick chimneys. The house is two storeys high with three windows. The central entrance has a renewed four-panel door with a three-pane overlight, all set in a painted tooled stone surround. The flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills of the renewed sashes with glazing bars also exhibit similar tooling. The low-pitched roof includes a stone eaves gutter supported by widely spaced stone brackets, plain stone gable copings, and corniced end chimneys. The rear elevation features a French window and an outshut that was added around 1970. The garden walls, which are four meters high and flank the front of the house, run north and south from the gables and are constructed from stone and quoins that match the house. A low wall encloses a rectangular garden in front, featuring a central renewed wrought-iron gate. The left high wall continues along the south and east boundary of the rear garden. Inside, there is a dogleg stair with block tread ends and stick balusters.
Local climate
Erw Wen and Attached Garden Walls receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
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