Gatepiers at Entrance to Hilton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Gatepiers.
Gatepiers at Entrance to Hilton Hall
- WRENN ID
- final-cellar-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gatepiers
- Address
- Gatepiers at Entrance to Hilton Hall, Hilton Village
- OS grid reference
- NZ 167 218
- Coordinates
- 54.59121, -1.74231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers at the entrance to Hilton Hall date from the early 18th century and are made of limewashed sandstone ashlar. They consist of two tall square piers featuring chamfered rustication and chamfered plinths. Each pier has a wide cornice and a pyramid finial with swept feet on moulded bases. The front and rear of the piers are adorned with corniced rusticated pilasters, while the sides have plain jamb pilasters.
Local climate
Gatepiers at Entrance to Hilton Hall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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