Forecourt Screen, Gatepiers and Gates at Trumpington Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. Gatepiers and gates. 1 related planning application.
Forecourt Screen, Gatepiers and Gates at Trumpington Hall
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-glass-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- Gatepiers and gates
- Address
- Forecourt Screen, Gatepiers and Gates at Trumpington Hall, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 441 550
- Coordinates
- 52.17528, 0.10643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The forecourt screen, gatepiers, and gates at Trumpington Hall date from around 1710. They feature a red brick dwarf wall that is separated by ten square piers arranged diagonally. The tall gate-piers are also made of red brick and topped with gadrooned urn finials. The entrance is completed with double wrought-iron gates.
Local climate
Forecourt Screen, Gatepiers and Gates at Trumpington Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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- 5 Gates, Screen, Piers and Wall to Frampton Hall
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