Gates, Overthrow and Piers Approximately 80 Metres East of Dutch Tea Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Gates and piers.
Gates, Overthrow and Piers Approximately 80 Metres East of Dutch Tea Garden
- WRENN ID
- seventh-ashlar-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1983
- Type
- Gates and piers
- OS grid reference
- SJ 416 603
- Coordinates
- 53.13723, -2.87438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of carriage gates, overthrow, and piers, built around 1870, are designed in a classical revival style. The gates and overthrow are made of wrought iron, while the piers are constructed from ashlar stone. Each gate features an ornate surround, dogbars, and a lockrail, with a decorative centerpiece in the upper panel: the left panel displays three stags' heads, and the right panel showcases a Grosvenor sheaf, both set within symmetrical patterns of foliated scrollwork. The overthrow is triangular, adorned with foliated scrollwork and a sheaf in the Garter as the central motif. The square piers have moulded plinths and caps, with a recessed panel on each side, topped with urns as finials. These gates are located in the wall between the park and garden designed by Alfred Waterhouse, although they may have been added later, possibly by Sir Edwin Lutyens, according to Pevsner and Hubbard.
Local climate
Gates, Overthrow and Piers Approximately 80 Metres East of Dutch Tea Garden receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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