Walls Gate Piers and Pigsty to West and North of Trafalgar House is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1986. Garden and boundary walls.

Walls Gate Piers and Pigsty to West and North of Trafalgar House

WRENN ID
spare-steeple-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Darlington
Constituency
Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 July 1986
Type
Garden and boundary walls
Address
Walls Gate Piers and Pigsty to West and North of Trafalgar House, Heighington Lane
OS grid reference
NZ 251 224
Coordinates
54.59677, -1.61227
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls, gate piers, and pigsty located to the west and north of Trafalgar House date from around 1815. They consist of dressed sandstone garden walls with brick inner faces, a rubble perimeter wall, and ashlar gate piers. The pigsty is built of squared rubble and features a pantiled roof, forming an L-plan structure.

The tall, flat-coped garden walls enclose three sides of the garden, with the inner faces constructed in English garden wall bond. The west wall measures 50 metres long and includes a quadrant ramp to the north, along with tooled-and-margined quoins at the southern end. The north wall is 20 metres long, while the east wall, which is located at the rear of the dovecote, measures 25 metres and also features a quadrant ramp and a lower return section to the house.

A tall boundary wall, measuring 90 metres long, runs east from the northeast corner of the garden walls. This wall includes raked-down sections and triangular coping stones. There are two sets of tall gate piers: the ones at the west have shallow rounded caps, while those at the east end, flanking the main drive, have offset caps and quadrant linking walls.

The lean-to pigsty, situated on the inner face of the boundary wall near the center, has two boarded doors, two partly-ruined flat-coped yard walls, and a low monopitch roof with coped ends. A rubble extension wall at the south end of the west garden wall and a lower rubble wall beyond the eastern gate piers are not of special interest. These structures are included for their group value.

Local climate

Walls Gate Piers and Pigsty to West and North of Trafalgar House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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