Front Wall and Railings to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1979. Wall, railings.
Front Wall and Railings to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- winding-hearth-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1979
- Type
- Wall, railings
- Address
- Front Wall and Railings to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Northgate
- OS grid reference
- SE 329 214
- Coordinates
- 53.6883, -1.50189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The front wall and railings to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School were built around 1834. The structure features a grooved stone wall topped with rounded coping, which supports heavy cast iron railings adorned with flamboyant tracery and trefoil heads. There are gates located at the center and at both ends of the wall, along with tall, battered gate piers.
Local climate
Front Wall and Railings to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School 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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