Battlemented Wall Including Triple Archway Along South Side of the Wilderness is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1968. Wall, gateway.
Battlemented Wall Including Triple Archway Along South Side of the Wilderness
- WRENN ID
- tall-bronze-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1968
- Type
- Wall, gateway
- Address
- Battlemented Wall Including Triple Archway Along South Side of the Wilderness, Wentworth Castle, Stainborough
- OS grid reference
- SE 318 029
- Coordinates
- 53.5222, -1.52153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The battlemented wall, including a triple archway, is located along the south side of The Wilderness at Wentworth Castle and is likely from 1738-39, commissioned by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. This structure features an ashlar sandstone gateway, while the rest of the wall is made of coursed, dressed sandstone and rubble. The gateway, known as Archer's Hill Gate, has a plinth and an impost band supporting three round-headed archways set within canted, rusticated walls adorned with seven ball finials. The arches, which are currently shored-up, still hold iron gates. The wall to the west serves as the southern boundary of The Wilderness and is topped with an embattled parapet. To the east, there is a low rubble retaining wall that connects to the dressed walling of a convex ha-ha at the southern end of the lawn leading to Wentworth Castle. The ha-ha features projecting piers and ashlar copings. Historical records indicate that the 1st Earl provided specific instructions for the construction of ha-has during the winter of 1738-39.
Local climate
Battlemented Wall Including Triple Archway Along South Side of the Wilderness receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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