Town Wall and Sandwell Gate is a Grade I listed building in the Hartlepool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1949. A C14 Town wall.
Town Wall and Sandwell Gate
- WRENN ID
- pitched-shingle-willow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Hartlepool
- Constituency
- Hartlepool MP: Mr Jonathan Brash (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1949
- Type
- Town wall
- Address
- Town Wall and Sandwell Gate, Headland
- OS grid reference
- NZ 524 336
- Coordinates
- 54.6956, -1.18759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Wall and Sandwell Gate in Hartlepool are early 14th-century town fortifications and a retaining wall that face Commissioners' Harbour. The structure is made of roughly-dressed and coursed limestone, along with random rubble limestone, and stands between 4 meters and 6 meters high and 2 meters to 3 meters thick, stretching approximately 380 meters in length, including the Sandwell Gate.
On the seaward side, there are battered buttresses, while a rampart walk is located above road level on the landward side, behind a parapet. The Sandwell Gate, a late 14th-century pointed-arched gateway, is situated on the seaward side. Its arch features two chamfered orders and is flanked by buttresses that rise to the full height of the parapet above a string course. Inside the arch, there is a segmental barrel vault with chamfered ribs, and a shallow triangular arch can be found on the landward side. This site is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument No. 24.
Local climate
Town Wall and Sandwell Gate receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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