Gatepiers at Entrance to Forecourt of Kirkleatham Hall School is a Grade I listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. A C.1700 Gatepiers.

Gatepiers at Entrance to Forecourt of Kirkleatham Hall School

WRENN ID
vacant-screen-woodpecker
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Redcar and Cleveland
Constituency
Redcar MP: Anna Turley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1952
Type
Gatepiers
OS grid reference
NZ 595 218
Coordinates
54.58857, -1.08077
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gatepiers at the entrance to the forecourt of Kirkleatham Hall School date from around 1700. They are constructed of sandstone ashlar and feature painted stone figures. Each pier has a corniced plinth and the west face includes a round-headed niche with a giant keystone and a chamfered rusticated surround, framed in an aedicule. The tympanum, frieze, and columns exhibit vermiculate rustication, and there are broad pilaster returns. Each pier is topped with sculptured lion passant finials, with the right paw holding a mill-rind, set on a raised rope-moulded base, which is the crest of the Turner family. The east face of each pier features a blind round-headed niche with an archivolt, keystone, and moulded imposts, beneath a frosted rusticated panel, all within an Ionic aedicule that has a pulvinated frieze. The gates and overthrow were destroyed in 1954, and the former Kirkleatham Hall was demolished in 1955.

Local climate

Gatepiers at Entrance to Forecourt of Kirkleatham Hall School receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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