Ha-Ha and Gate Piers to Front of Beech Lawn and Attached Garden Wall to Right of Beech Lawn is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Garden structure.

Ha-Ha and Gate Piers to Front of Beech Lawn and Attached Garden Wall to Right of Beech Lawn

WRENN ID
over-truss-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1986
Type
Garden structure
Address
Ha-Ha and Gate Piers to Front of Beech Lawn and Attached Garden Wall to Right of Beech Lawn, Heath Common, Warmfield Cum Heath
OS grid reference
SE 358 199
Coordinates
53.67497, -1.45912
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The ha-ha, gate piers, and garden wall at the front of Beech Lawn date from the mid to late 18th century. The ha-ha features punch-dressed stone with ashlar coping and cast-iron railings. The walled garden is constructed of coursed rubble with a brown and red brick lining in stretcher bond. The retaining walls of the ha-ha create a circular island that wraps around three-quarters of the house. At the east and west ends, there are monolithic gate piers topped with pyramid caps, which still have remnants of railings. The railings are ramped towards the piers and include straight and wavy rods with spear-head finials. The west end is attached to the left return of the house, while the east end connects to the rectangular walled garden, which is enclosed on three sides with ramped coping and features two projecting segmental-arched hoods over seats on the eastern side.

Local climate

Ha-Ha and Gate Piers to Front of Beech Lawn and Attached Garden Wall to Right of Beech Lawn 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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