Gates, Gatepiers and Flanking Walls at Main Entrance to Park at Beechwood Park School is a Grade II* listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. A Georgian Gates and walls.

Gates, Gatepiers and Flanking Walls at Main Entrance to Park at Beechwood Park School

WRENN ID
distant-crypt-spindle
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1987
Type
Gates and walls
Period
Georgian
Address
Gates, Gatepiers and Flanking Walls at Main Entrance to Park at Beechwood Park School, Flamstead
OS grid reference
TL 053 143
Coordinates
51.81762, -0.47336
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gates, gatepiers, and flanking walls at the main entrance to Beechwood Park School were built in the 18th century, likely around 1760, by Sir William Chambers, who was also involved in the mansion's interiors for the Sebright family. The structure features wrought ironwork, Portland stone piers, and red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with moulded brick coping.

At the center of a concave sweep of 2-meter high brick walls, there are two widely spaced stone piers, each 5 meters tall, topped with urns. These piers flank a long wrought iron screen that contains central double gates, standards, and side gates, all adorned with lower overthrows of scrolled ironwork. The stone piers are delicately detailed, each measuring 1 meter square and featuring a shaft of channelled rustication. Each block has a vermiculated face and drafted margin at the joints, a projecting low moulded base, moulded necking, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice capped with a Baroque, intricately carved large urn set high on a concave base.

The gates and standards include dog-bars in the bottom panels, with a scrolled bracket beside the higher standard and another scrolled panel at the head. Old photographs reveal scrolled terminals on both standards and an armorial scrolled great overthrow that is now rusting near the school.

Local climate

Gates, Gatepiers and Flanking Walls at Main Entrance to Park at Beechwood Park School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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