Gate Piers at Entrance to Witton Wear is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Gate piers. 1 related planning application.
Gate Piers at Entrance to Witton Wear
- WRENN ID
- brooding-chapel-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Gate Piers at Entrance to Witton Wear, High Street, Witton-Le-Wear, DL14 0AX
- OS grid reference
- NZ 144 312
- Coordinates
- 54.6763, -1.7767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two gate piers forming the entrance to Witton Tower, dating from the late 18th century. They are constructed of sandstone ashlar. The piers are square in plan and feature chamfered rustication and pyramidal copings. The north pier was heavily overgrown with vegetation at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Gate Piers at Entrance to Witton Wear receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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