Garden Wall to East of Silksworth Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. Garden wall.
Garden Wall to East of Silksworth Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-thatch-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South MP: Bridget Phillipson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1978
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Wall to East of Silksworth Cottage, Warden Law Lane, SR3 2PD
- OS grid reference
- NZ 374 528
- Coordinates
- 54.86939, -1.41734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden wall to the east of Silksworth Cottage is a structure dating from around 1800. It is built of rubble with a flat stone coping. The high wall runs along the front of the property and features a brick segmental arch that covers a boarded door leading to the house. At the southern end of the wall, there are square rubble piers.
Local climate
Garden Wall to East of Silksworth Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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