Gate Piers and Flanking Walls Immediately East North East of the Mansion is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1992. Gate piers and walls.

Gate Piers and Flanking Walls Immediately East North East of the Mansion

WRENN ID
swift-panel-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1992
Type
Gate piers and walls
Address
Gate Piers and Flanking Walls Immediately East North East of the Mansion, Berkhamstead Hill, Berkhamsted
OS grid reference
TL 004 087
Coordinates
51.76821, -0.54625
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gate-piers and flanking walls located immediately east-north-east of The Mansion were constructed between 1906 and 1908 by architect George Hubbard, with the building work carried out by H and J Matthews, builders from Berkhamsted, for Sir John Evans, an archaeologist. These structures are made of rusticated red brick and feature flanking quadrant walls that have similar terminal piers. The gate-piers are adorned with moulded stone necking and cornices, and they are topped with elaborately scrolled wrought-iron lamp standards and lamps. The quadrant walls are built in header bond purple brick, decorated with red brick diaperwork and finished with stone coping. The wrought-iron gates are later replacements. The Mansion was originally known as Britwell.

Local climate

Gate Piers and Flanking Walls Immediately East North East of the Mansion 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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