Garden wall at Number 28 Gatepiers and corner pier is a Grade II listed building in the Chesterfield local planning authority area, England. A 19th century Garden wall.

Garden wall at Number 28 Gatepiers and corner pier

WRENN ID
twelfth-roof-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chesterfield
Constituency
Chesterfield MP: Mr Toby Perkins (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Garden wall
Period
19th century
Address
Garden wall at Number 28 Gatepiers and corner pier, Abercrombie Street, S41 7LW
OS grid reference
SK 383 717
Coordinates
53.24113, -1.42748
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden wall at Number 28, along with its gatepiers and corner pier, dates from around 1840. It features a high wall made of coursed stone, topped with a stone coping, which encloses the garden along Sheffield Road and Abercrombie Road. The wall includes a large rounded stone corner post that has a plinth and a pyramidal cap. This structure is included for its group value in relation to the buildings at the entrance to Abercrombie Street.

Local climate

Garden wall at Number 28 Gatepiers and corner pier receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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