Terrace Retaining Wall, South of Lambton Castle is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. Retaining wall.
Terrace Retaining Wall, South of Lambton Castle
- WRENN ID
- sharp-moat-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1987
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Terrace Retaining Wall, South of Lambton Castle, North Lodge
- OS grid reference
- NZ 298 525
- Coordinates
- 54.86677, -1.53669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The terrace retaining wall south of Lambton Castle was built around 1822-1828 by Ignatius Bonomi and is made of ashlar sandstone. This tall buttressed wall extends approximately 90 metres to the east and then 35 metres to the north-east. There are later, shorter abutments positioned between the buttresses. The wall features an embattled parapet with semi-octagonal, corbelled-out turrets above each buttress, along with a similar square-plan turret at the west end. At the east end, there is a flight of stone steps. The wall has been noted as unstable due to mining subsidence at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Terrace Retaining Wall, South of Lambton Castle receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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