Gate, Piers and Steps at West Gate to Walled Garden at Beechwood Park School is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Gate, piers, steps.

Gate, Piers and Steps at West Gate to Walled Garden at Beechwood Park School

WRENN ID
mired-mullion-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1987
Type
Gate, piers, steps
Address
Gate, Piers and Steps at West Gate to Walled Garden at Beechwood Park School, Flamstead
OS grid reference
TL 045 143
Coordinates
51.81813, -0.48495
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gate, piers, and steps at the west gate to the walled garden at Beechwood Park School date from the early 18th century. They feature wrought iron and red brick piers with stone copings, along with moulded stone steps. The design includes a single gate with iron standards and an overthrow, positioned between three-meter tall square red brick piers that are set in an older garden wall of the same height. Two stone steps lead down into the garden on the east side. The gate has dog-bars in the bottom panel, a scrolled lock rail, and twisted points above. The rectangular standards, spaced one bar from the piers, have elaborate scrolled infill, and the tops align with the head of the gate. Scrolled finials are present above each standard, with a taller finial over the gate featuring a Chinese fret in the center.

Local climate

Gate, Piers and Steps at West Gate to Walled Garden 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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