Entrance Gate,Railings and Garden Wall at North Leys is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. Gate, railings, garden wall.
Entrance Gate,Railings and Garden Wall at North Leys
- WRENN ID
- pitched-chapel-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- Gate, railings, garden wall
- Address
- Entrance Gate,Railings and Garden Wall at North Leys, High Street, Much Hadham
- OS grid reference
- TL 427 197
- Coordinates
- 51.85798, 0.07157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance gate, railings, and garden wall at North Leys date from around 1720 and are contemporary with the house. The structure features wrought iron railings and a double gate set over a half-height brick wall. The gates and railings are adorned with scrolled panels and cresting at intervals. The red brick wall includes flanking square piers topped with stone ball finials. There is a continuation of the wall on the northern boundary of the garden, built around 1824, which is taller and includes a square angle pier with a stone ball finial.
Local climate
Entrance Gate,Railings and Garden Wall at North Leys sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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