Gate Piers West of Whitburn Moors Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. A C18 Gate pier.
Gate Piers West of Whitburn Moors Farm
- WRENN ID
- rough-alcove-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- South Shields MP: Emma Lewell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- Gate pier
- Address
- Gate Piers West of Whitburn Moors Farm, Sunderland Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 389 610
- Coordinates
- 54.94217, -1.39365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are two gate piers located west of Whitburn Moors Farm, dating from the 18th century. They are made of rendered coursed sandstone and have a square shape. A notable feature is the band on the second course from the top, which is topped with a pineapple finial.
Local climate
Gate Piers West of Whitburn Moors Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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