Gates, Gate Piers and Flanking Garden Boundary Walls to South of Castor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. Gate, boundary wall.
Gates, Gate Piers and Flanking Garden Boundary Walls to South of Castor House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-cobble-nettle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1955
- Type
- Gate, boundary wall
- Address
- Gates, Gate Piers and Flanking Garden Boundary Walls to South of Castor House, Peterborough Road, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TL 127 981
- Coordinates
- 52.56983, -0.33793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gates, gate piers, and flanking garden boundary walls located to the south of Castor House date from the late 17th century. The gate piers are made of rusticated stone and feature cornices and large ball finials, with niches on the front sides that have railings at their bases. The gates are wrought iron and are accompanied by an ornate wrought iron overthrow. The flanking garden boundary walls are constructed from coursed stone rubble and are partly topped with iron railings.
Local climate
Gates, Gate Piers and Flanking Garden Boundary Walls to South of Castor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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