Gatepiers, Garden Walls, Railings and Sundial, Circa 30 Yards South of Overacres is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1951. Gatepiers and garden walls.
Gatepiers, Garden Walls, Railings and Sundial, Circa 30 Yards South of Overacres
- WRENN ID
- stony-gravel-dew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1951
- Type
- Gatepiers and garden walls
- OS grid reference
- NY 908 930
- Coordinates
- 55.23165, -2.14546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers, garden walls, railings, and sundial located approximately 30 yards south of Overacres date from around 1720 and were possibly re-set for the Howards of Redesdale.
The gatepiers are tall and rusticated, featuring cornices and the Howard crest set within foliage trails beneath the friezes. Each frieze displays a wild-man mask flanked by rosettes. The piers are topped with large urns adorned with festoons, swags, and heads, and capped by pineapple finials. On the inner face of each pier, the date 1720 is presented in a moulded panel.
The structure is flanked by short walls approximately 3 feet high, which have corniced coping and simple spiked railings. To the left, there is a square, corniced end pier that supports a multi-faceted sundial on a Corinthian capital, topped with a ball finial.
Local climate
Gatepiers, Garden Walls, Railings and Sundial, Circa 30 Yards South of Overacres receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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