Forecourt Walls, Entrance Gates and Claire-Voie Immediately South of Julians is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. Forecourt walls.
Forecourt Walls, Entrance Gates and Claire-Voie Immediately South of Julians
- WRENN ID
- open-vault-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- Forecourt walls
- Address
- Forecourt Walls, Entrance Gates and Claire-Voie Immediately South of Julians, Rushden
- OS grid reference
- TL 307 325
- Coordinates
- 51.97562, -0.0972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The forecourt walls, entrance gates, and clair-voie immediately south of Julians were built between 1937 and 1939 for Colonel R. Cooper. The walls are made of red brick and stand about 2 meters high, featuring moulded Portland stone coping. They extend away from the house and include a low stone-coped brick plinth that supports a wrought iron clair-voie facing the house. There are quadrant spur walls at the far angles. The flanking side gates and the entrance gate at the far angles are supported by ashlar piers, which have rebated corners except for the side gate piers that are panelled. The piers have moulded caps and bases, with ball finials on the side and entrance gate piers, and urn finials at the ends.
Local climate
Forecourt Walls, Entrance Gates and Claire-Voie Immediately South of Julians sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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