Piers, Walls and Railings, East of Church of St Matthew and Former School is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Piers, walls, railings.

Piers, Walls and Railings, East of Church of St Matthew and Former School

WRENN ID
kindled-entrance-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle upon Tyne
Constituency
Cramlington and Killingworth MP: Emma Foody (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Piers, walls, railings
Address
Piers, Walls and Railings, East of Church of St Matthew and Former School, Cochrane Terrace, Dinnington
OS grid reference
NZ 208 732
Coordinates
55.0534, -1.6749
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The piers, walls, and railings located east of the Church of St. Matthew and the former school in Dinnington date from around 1880. They are constructed from rock-faced sandstone and rubble. The structure features three square piers that have a plinth, a band, and low pyramidal coping. There are dwarf walls with chamfered coping in front of the former school, while the church has chamfered ashlar coping. The wrought iron railings are adorned with flat lozenge finials.

Local climate

Piers, Walls and Railings, East of Church of St Matthew and Former School 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 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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