Forecourt Wall to No 19 and to Sheraton Park is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. Folly. 1 related planning application.
Forecourt Wall to No 19 and to Sheraton Park
- WRENN ID
- odd-pavement-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- Forecourt Wall to No 19 and to Sheraton Park, Blackwell, DL3 8QY
- OS grid reference
- NZ 274 126
- Coordinates
- 54.50839, -1.57766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a Victorian folly and associated forecourt wall. No. 19 is a two-story square tower built of roughly coursed rubble stone with red brick dressings. It features angle pilasters and a battlemented parapet above a brick dentil cornice, which is broken outward at the corners to support angle turrets, also battlemented, with a diagonal brick corbel table. A three-light casement window, transomed, is set in splayed stone frames. A single small light is present on the north face, and drip moulds are incorporated.
A long, high wall extends southward from the southeast corner of the tower to Bridge Road. This wall is constructed of random rubble with red brick pilasters supporting a battlemented brick parapet, and is finished with stone-coped end piers, the northern one topped with an urn finial. A quarter-octagonal porch of rusticated stone, with a battlemented parapet and a Tudor arched entrance under a dripmould, is situated in the angle between the wall and the tower.
The land behind the folly has been re-developed, with a new house, Sheraton Park, built. An arch has been inserted into the forecourt wall to create a gateway for Sheraton Park.
Local climate
Forecourt Wall to No 19 and to Sheraton Park 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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