Gatepiers to Holden Park with Flanking Wall, 4 Piers and Gateway to Left and 5 Piers and 3 Gatepiers to Right is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Gatepiers with wall.
Gatepiers to Holden Park with Flanking Wall, 4 Piers and Gateway to Left and 5 Piers and 3 Gatepiers to Right
- WRENN ID
- twisted-zinc-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1986
- Type
- Gatepiers with wall
- Address
- Gatepiers to Holden Park with Flanking Wall, 4 Piers and Gateway to Left and 5 Piers and 3 Gatepiers to Right, Keighley Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 034 388
- Coordinates
- 53.8457, -1.9486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers and flanking walls at Holden Park date from the early to mid-19th century and are constructed from coursed stone and ashlar. The gatepiers are square in shape, each featuring a stepped plinth and two panels divided by a fluted band. The lower panel has a chamfered, sunk cross, while the upper panel displays a bronze plaque. Each gatepier has an entablature with a cornice that rises to a semicircle on each face, topped with a bronze statue. The right pier includes a plaque listing the names of the urban district council members from 1925, the year the park was opened to the public, and the statue holds a torch and a snake. The left pier has a plaque commemorating the donation of the park to the public, with its statue holding a torch and a ball.
On either side of the gatepiers, there are pedestrian archways with moulded surrounds. The flanking walls slope down to the sides of these archways and continue with piers placed at regular intervals. The wall features a stepped plinth and moulded coping. The piers have a plinth, two raised panels, an entablature with a pyramidal panel on the frieze, and a stepped capstone topped with a gadrooned urn. To the far left, two similar piers serve as gatepiers. On the right side, the wall slopes down and continues at a lower height with a shorter pier, a pair of shorter gatepiers, and one remaining tall gatepier at the far right, all in a similar style. Holden Park was originally the garden of Sir Isaac Holden's house, of which only the port-cochère now remains.
Local climate
Gatepiers to Holden Park with Flanking Wall, 4 Piers and Gateway to Left and 5 Piers and 3 Gatepiers to Right 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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