Walls Flanking North West Entrance to Thornes Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1979. Wall.
Walls Flanking North West Entrance to Thornes Park
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-iron-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1979
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Walls Flanking North West Entrance to Thornes Park, Horbury Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 320 201
- Coordinates
- 53.67675, -1.51669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls flanking the north-west entrance to Thornes Park, built in the 18th century, are made of red brick. They feature two outer quadrants, with the northern quadrant having a straight extension. The taller central sections include a cornice and blocking course, along with angle pilasters and sunk panels within stone architraves. From these sections, small, low walls extend inwards towards the drive, where low, square piers with later stone caps are the only remnants of the original gate piers.
Local climate
Walls Flanking North West Entrance to Thornes Park 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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