Gates, Gatepiers and Screen Walls to West of Matfen Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1969. Gatepiers, screen walls.
Gates, Gatepiers and Screen Walls to West of Matfen Hall
- WRENN ID
- lone-ember-oak
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1969
- Type
- Gatepiers, screen walls
- OS grid reference
- NZ 029 715
- Coordinates
- 55.03819, -1.95592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gates, gatepiers, and screen walls located to the west of Matfen Hall date from the early 18th century and early 19th century. They are constructed from ashlar and iron.
The 18th-century square gatepiers feature shell niches, pulvinated oak-leaf friezes, and moulded cornices, topped with urn finials that rest on large scrolled bracket bases. The urns are decorated with faces and swags.
Flanking the entrance are low quadrant walls that have cornices and end in 19th-century square corniced piers with pyramidal caps. The 19th-century gates have a ramped-down top rail, simple pointed railings, and half railings.
Local climate
Gates, Gatepiers and Screen Walls to West of Matfen Hall receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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