Gate piers and flanking walls in front of Elmwood House and at entrance to farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Gate piers and walls.
Gate piers and flanking walls in front of Elmwood House and at entrance to farm
- WRENN ID
- pitched-rotunda-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1986
- Type
- Gate piers and walls
- Address
- Gate piers and flanking walls in front of Elmwood House and at entrance to farm, Oakenshaw Lane, Walton
- OS grid reference
- SE 351 174
- Coordinates
- 53.65261, -1.4696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and flanking walls in front of Elmwood House and at the entrance to the farm date from the late 18th century. They are constructed of hammer-dressed stone walls with ashlar piers and coping. The structure is aligned with the slope of the hill, featuring three steps with curved coping leading down to each lower level. The gate piers have channelled stonework and projecting square caps topped with ball finials. To the left, there are curved quadrant walls and simpler gate piers marking the entrance to the farmyard.
Local climate
Gate piers and flanking walls in front of Elmwood House and at entrance to farm receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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