Garden Wall, Gate and Railings to South of Old Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Garden wall, gate, railings.
Garden Wall, Gate and Railings to South of Old Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-steel-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Garden wall, gate, railings
- Address
- Garden Wall, Gate and Railings to South of Old Schoolhouse, Heddon-On-The-Wall
- OS grid reference
- NZ 126 668
- Coordinates
- 54.99575, -1.80438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden wall, gate, and railings located to the south of the Old Schoolhouse date from around 1800. They are constructed from ashlar and iron. The side walls are approximately 3½ feet high and feature roll-moulded coping. There are tall square corner piers that have cornices and concave pyramidal caps. The low front walls are topped with railings that include pointed standards, dog-bars, a scalloped half-rail, and a top rail with curled brackets. The structure is interrupted in the center by gates that follow a similar style.
Local climate
Garden Wall, Gate and Railings to South of Old Schoolhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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