Piers and Quadrant Walls at Entrance to Humshaugh is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1988. Entrance piers, walls.
Piers and Quadrant Walls at Entrance to Humshaugh
- WRENN ID
- grey-beam-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1988
- Type
- Entrance piers, walls
- OS grid reference
- NY 921 714
- Coordinates
- 55.0379, -2.12493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The piers and quadrant walls at the entrance to Humshaugh House are likely from the 18th century, while the wall and outer pilasters date to the 19th century. They are constructed from squared stone and ashlar. The main piers are square and rusticated, featuring moulded pyramidal caps. The quadrant walls have gabled coping and extend to plain ashlar pilasters that have moulded caps, which rise from shaped bases located part-way up the wall.
Local climate
Piers and Quadrant Walls at Entrance to Humshaugh receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% 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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