Wall to Front Garden of Cumberland Priory with Two Sets of Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Boundary wall.
Wall to Front Garden of Cumberland Priory with Two Sets of Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- hollow-stone-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Wall to Front Garden of Cumberland Priory with Two Sets of Gate Piers, Cumberland Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 287 359
- Coordinates
- 53.81904, -1.56424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary wall to the front garden of Cumberland Priory, built around 1840, features two sets of gate piers. Constructed from coursed gritstone, the wall is approximately 1.2 meters high and 30 meters long. It has rounded coping and gate piers located at the center and far right, opposite the entrance to Cumberland Priory. The piers are square in shape with chamfered corners and moulded caps for the pedestrian entrance. This structure is included for its group value with Cumberland Priory.
Local climate
Wall to Front Garden of Cumberland Priory with Two Sets of Gate Piers 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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The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Boundary Walls and Gate Piers to No. 54 The Priory
- 2 Boundary Wall and Gate Piers to the Priory and the Old Rectory
- 3 Gate Piers to West and Garden Wall to South West and North of the Priory
- 4 Wall and Gate Piers to North and North West of the Priory
- 5 Boundary Wall and Gate Piers to Numbers 446-464
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