Boundary/Retaining Wall, Railings and Gatepiers to Front Yard of the Old Zetland School. is a Grade II listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1987. Boundary wall with railings and gatepiers.
Boundary/Retaining Wall, Railings and Gatepiers to Front Yard of the Old Zetland School.
- WRENN ID
- sharp-hinge-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Constituency
- Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP: Luke Myer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1987
- Type
- Boundary wall with railings and gatepiers
- Address
- Boundary/Retaining Wall, Railings and Gatepiers to Front Yard of the Old Zetland School., High Street, Loftus
- OS grid reference
- NZ 720 181
- Coordinates
- 54.55387, -0.88786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary and retaining wall, railings, and gatepiers to the front yard of The Old Zetland School are located on Loftus High Street and date from around 1871. The structure features a retaining wall made of dressed sandstone, which extends to the street and includes end returns. The flat-topped copings support barleysugar railings adorned with fleur-de-lys finials. The intermediate rails are fluted and have inverted palmette ornamental bases along with urn finials. The stop-chamfered gatepiers are topped with chamfered pyramidal caps that have flat tops. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Boundary/Retaining Wall, Railings and Gatepiers to Front Yard of the Old Zetland School. receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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