Piers and Screen Wall at Entrance to Eshott Hall Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Entrance piers, screen wall.
Piers and Screen Wall at Entrance to Eshott Hall Drive
- WRENN ID
- stranded-pillar-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- Entrance piers, screen wall
- Address
- Piers and Screen Wall at Entrance to Eshott Hall Drive, Thirston
- OS grid reference
- NZ 203 976
- Coordinates
- 55.27286, -1.68114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The piers and screen wall at the entrance to Eshott Hall Drive date from the mid-18th century and are constructed from tooled squared stone. The structure features square rusticated piers topped with moulded caps that support 19th-century wrought-iron gates. The gates are designed with lancehead standards and dogbars, and the upper rail includes trefoiled circles, while the middle and lower rails are adorned with scrolly ornament. Quadrant walls with chamfered coping connect to smaller outer piers that have rounded caps.
Local climate
Piers and Screen Wall at Entrance to Eshott Hall Drive receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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