Garden Walls to East and North of the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Garden wall.
Garden Walls to East and North of the Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- rough-rubble-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Walls to East and North of the Old Rectory, Whalton
- OS grid reference
- NZ 131 814
- Coordinates
- 55.12696, -1.7952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls to the east and north of The Old Rectory date from the 18th century and include a wellhead dated 1909, likely designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The east wall is constructed of brick in stretcher bond, while the north wall is made of rubble with cut stone dressings, forming an L-plan. The tall east wall features a flat stone coping that ramps down at the south end to a low terminal pier, with the north end of the wall being from the 20th century. There are various internal buttresses present. The north wall, which faces the road, has similar coping and ramp-downs. Near the east end of the north wall, the wellhead has a round arch with a hollow-chamfered hood supported by foliage-carved stops, enclosing a recessed panel with a Latin inscription in memory of Eustace Smith. Below this, a slab with decorative tooling is supported by half-round pilasters that flank a bronze tap. The lower section of the north wall, located to the west of the ramp-down of the coping, has been patched and altered and is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Garden Walls to East and North of the Old Rectory receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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