Walls, Gate Piers and Gates Fronting Fence House and Fence Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1977. Gate piers and gates.
Walls, Gate Piers and Gates Fronting Fence House and Fence Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- tattered-corridor-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1977
- Type
- Gate piers and gates
- Address
- Walls, Gate Piers and Gates Fronting Fence House and Fence Almshouses, Buxton Road, Macclesfield
- OS grid reference
- SJ 921 736
- Coordinates
- 53.25958, -2.11903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure consists of walls, gate piers, and gates that front Fence House and Fence Almshouses, built around 1880. It features a low stone wall that runs along the front with short returns on either side. The wall is made of coursed and squared rubble with roll moulded copings. At the center, there are rusticated ashlar gate piers topped with ball finials, and a pair of wrought-iron gates completes the entrance.
Local climate
Walls, Gate Piers and Gates Fronting Fence House and Fence Almshouses sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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