Walls, Railings, Gate Piers, Gates and Steps to Front of Number 72 is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1989. A C18 Gates and railings.
Walls, Railings, Gate Piers, Gates and Steps to Front of Number 72
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1989
- Type
- Gates and railings
- Address
- Walls, Railings, Gate Piers, Gates and Steps to Front of Number 72, High Street, Castle Donington
- OS grid reference
- SK 442 268
- Coordinates
- 52.83768, -1.34457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure consists of garden walls, railings, gate piers, gates, and steps at the front of Number 72. The gate piers date from around 1730 to 1740 and are made of rusticated ashlar, featuring moulded bases and capitals topped with pine-cone finials. There are two sets of piers: one pair flanks the driveway to the left, while the other pair flanks the gates leading to the steps up to the front door of the house.
On either side and between the sets of piers are early to mid-19th century brick dwarf walls with stone copings and cast iron railings. The railings, which date from the same period, include finials with fleur-de-lys on alternate rails. A further section of dwarf wall with railings curves back from the pier to the right of the driveway. The central pair of gates, also from the early to mid-19th century, resemble the railings and feature a ramped design leading down to a central lotus finial. The lower railings of the gate have a frieze of roundels. To the right, there is a high stone garden wall.
Local climate
Walls, Railings, Gate Piers, Gates and Steps to Front of Number 72 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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