Garden Walls and Gate Piers to South of Thornton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1986. Garden walls, gate piers.
Garden Walls and Gate Piers to South of Thornton Hall
- WRENN ID
- sunken-wattle-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1986
- Type
- Garden walls, gate piers
- Address
- Garden Walls and Gate Piers to South of Thornton Hall, Staindrop Road, High Coniscliffe
- OS grid reference
- NZ 237 169
- Coordinates
- 54.54701, -1.63395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls and gate piers located to the south of Thornton Hall are likely from the 17th century, with the piers dating to the early 18th century. The walls are constructed of coursed rubble, while the piers are made of ashlar. A tall, partly rebuilt wall with flat coping connects to the west return of the hall. This wall extends west for 15 meters and then south for 100 meters to the main road. Near the north-west corner, there is a Tudor-arched doorway from the 19th century. Low rebuilt quadrant walls, featuring central gate piers, connect the west wall to the outer wall that encloses the south paddock. The pair of tall rebated piers display chamfered rustication and corniced caps topped with rounded pyramidal finials. A cross wall in front of the hall garden is not of special interest. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Garden Walls and Gate Piers to South of Thornton Hall receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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