Front Wall to Grounds of Gascoigne Almshouses with Gatepiers at Each End is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. Retaining wall.

Front Wall to Grounds of Gascoigne Almshouses with Gatepiers at Each End

WRENN ID
hollow-belfry-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 December 1986
Type
Retaining wall
Address
Front Wall to Grounds of Gascoigne Almshouses with Gatepiers at Each End, Main Street, Parlington
OS grid reference
SE 433 363
Coordinates
53.82142, -1.34367
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The front wall to the grounds of the Gascoigne Almshouses, with gatepiers at each end, is a retaining wall that supports the raised ground of the front garden. It was likely built around 1844 and is probably designed by the architect George Fowler Jones, who also designed the Gascoigne Almshouses. The wall is made of dressed magnesian limestone and is approximately 130 meters long. It features projecting battered piers at regular intervals, and at each end, there is a pair of square gatepiers that are battered in the lower half. These gatepiers have weathered pyramidal caps and ogee finials.

Local climate

Front Wall to Grounds of Gascoigne Almshouses with Gatepiers at Each End receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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