Gate Piers and Railings to Tower Court is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1990. Gatehouse.

Gate Piers and Railings to Tower Court

WRENN ID
scarred-zinc-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds West and Pudsey MP: Rachel Reeves (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 August 1990
Type
Gatehouse
Address
Gate Piers and Railings to Tower Court, Armley Road
OS grid reference
SE 275 337
Coordinates
53.799, -1.58387
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gate piers and railings to Tower Court were built in 1878 and are located on the north side of Armley Road in Leeds. They consist of railings with three sets of gate piers and gates, made from brick, stone, and wrought iron. The structure extends across the front of Armley Primary School, featuring a low brick wall with stone coping. The railings have square-section rails, with scrolled panels flanking the standards and scrolled and gadrooned ball finials on top. The gate piers have a plinth with banded solid stone shafts that are approximately 2 meters high, and the central pair of piers retain separate moulded corniced capstones. The gates include a single leaf to the center and right, while only one of the paired gates to the left remains. There is scroll decoration above the lock and hinge bars. This structure is included for its group value.

Local climate

Gate Piers and Railings to Tower Court receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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