Gate Pier in Front of Whirley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. Gate pier.
Gate Pier in Front of Whirley Hall
- WRENN ID
- slow-frieze-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- Gate pier
- Address
- Gate Pier in Front of Whirley Hall, Whirley Lane, Over Alderley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 876 745
- Coordinates
- 53.26791, -2.18677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate pier in front of Whirley Hall dates from the late 17th century and is constructed from buff sandstone ashlar. It features a moulded plinth that supports a square body, which has two recessed panels on each face bordered by cabling, with a raised band between them. The upper panel on the front displays the arms of the Fitton family. At the top, there is a projecting, moulded capstone topped with a mushroom finial that has a gadrooned cap. In Victorian times, there was originally a pair of these gate piers, with the missing one displaying the arms of the Swettenham family.
Local climate
Gate Pier in Front of Whirley Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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