Screen and garden gate 40m west of Balls Park Mansion is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. Gate, screen. 2 related planning applications.
Screen and garden gate 40m west of Balls Park Mansion
- WRENN ID
- pale-steel-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1973
- Type
- Gate, screen
- Address
- Screen and garden gate 40m west of Balls Park Mansion, Hertford
- OS grid reference
- TL 334 119
- Coordinates
- 51.79021, -0.0658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This early 18th-century garden screen and gate stands 40 metres west of Balls Park Mansion. The wrought-iron gate features scrollwork and an overthrow displaying the initials of Edward Harrison, who died in 1732. It is flanked by scrollwork posts and side screens resting on low brick walls with Portland stone copings. Tall red brick piers, also with moulded stone copings, blocking courses, and ball finials, mark the gate’s edges.
Local climate
Screen and garden gate 40m west of Balls Park Mansion 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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