Piers and Gates at Witton Castle North Entrance, with Wall to Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Gate piers and gates.
Piers and Gates at Witton Castle North Entrance, with Wall to Bridge
- WRENN ID
- tattered-loft-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gate piers and gates
- Address
- Piers and Gates at Witton Castle North Entrance, with Wall to Bridge, A68, Evenwood and Barony
- OS grid reference
- NZ 147 306
- Coordinates
- 54.67113, -1.7721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The piers and gates at the north entrance of Witton Castle, along with the wall leading to the bridge, were likely built around 1810. They are made of sandstone blocks with ashlar dressings and feature wrought iron gates. The entrance has two wide round gate piers, approximately 3 meters high, which have a coarse rustication and are topped with bands and raised battlemented coping. Each band has four moulded rectangular blank panels. The flanking piers, which are about one meter high, form the boundary wall and have ogee-domed coping. A low wall with rusticated coping connects the north pier to Witton Bridge. The gates are adorned with spear heads on the straight top rail, linked scrolls, and twisted spike-topped dog bars.
Local climate
Piers and Gates at Witton Castle North Entrance, with Wall to Bridge 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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