Entrance Gateway to Windlestone Hall, with Piers, Quadrant Walls and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1968. Gateway.

Entrance Gateway to Windlestone Hall, with Piers, Quadrant Walls and Gates

WRENN ID
blind-turret-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 January 1968
Type
Gateway
Address
Entrance Gateway to Windlestone Hall, with Piers, Quadrant Walls and Gates, A689
OS grid reference
NZ 265 289
Coordinates
54.6552, -1.59023
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance gateway to Windlestone Hall features piers, quadrant walls, and gates, likely dating from the early 19th century, although the walls have been altered. It includes sandstone ashlar piers and walls with wrought iron gates designed in an 18th-century style. The segmental-topped dwarf walls exhibit chamfered rustication and have raised coping that has been re-used. The front square piers are topped with pyramidal coping, and the gate piers have wide cornices and ball finials. The gates, which sweep up to the outer ends, feature top and bottom bands of quatrefoils that connect massive spear-headed uprights of octagonal section.

Local climate

Entrance Gateway to Windlestone Hall, with Piers, Quadrant Walls and Gates receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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