Gates and Gatepiers to East of Longford Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1985. Gates and gatepiers.
Gates and Gatepiers to East of Longford Hall
- WRENN ID
- brooding-foundation-amber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1985
- Type
- Gates and gatepiers
- Address
- Gates and Gatepiers to East of Longford Hall, Long Lane
- OS grid reference
- SK 215 382
- Coordinates
- 52.94123, -1.68012
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance gates and gatepiers to the east of Longford Hall date from the early 18th century and are reputedly designed by Robert Bakewell. They are constructed from stone and iron. The pair of square gate piers stands approximately 12 feet high and features rustication on all sides, with a moulded cornice and shallow pyramidal coping stone on top. Each pier has plain pilasters with scrolled tops on the north and south sides, with the two central pilasters designed to hold the gates.
The gates themselves are a fine pair, each featuring a segmental curve at the center and constructed from plain square-sectioned rails. These rails are connected by a band adorned with small knobbed and scrolled finials about a third of the way up, and there is an ornate cornice above. At the base, there is a dograil decorated with arrowheads. The cornice includes a frieze of strapwork with wavy bands at the center, a design that is echoed in narrow separate panels on the sides where the gates are hung. Both gates are topped with elaborate scrolled overmantles that have fleur de lys type finials.
Local climate
Gates and Gatepiers to East of Longford Hall receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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