Entrance Gates, Childwick Bury Stud is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1994. Entrance gates.

Entrance Gates, Childwick Bury Stud

WRENN ID
silver-latch-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 July 1994
Type
Entrance gates
Address
Entrance Gates, Childwick Bury Stud, Harpenden Road, St. Michael
OS grid reference
TL 141 115
Coordinates
51.7906, -0.34627
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance gates to Childwick Bury Stud were built around 1888 for Sir John Blundell Maple, Member of Parliament and founder of the stud. The gates feature classical-style gate piers made of Portland stone ashlar, which frame ornamental double wrought iron gates and smaller pedestrian wrought iron gates on either side. Each of the two free-standing square gate piers has a moulded offset plinth and banded rustication on the shaft. They are topped with a taller block that has a square panel in a moulded frame on each face, and a moulded cornice with a ball finial on the blocking course. The double wrought iron gates display a closely set, repetitive pattern of linked, scrolled quatrefoils that rise into a pyramidal, scrolled top.

Local climate

Entrance Gates, Childwick Bury Stud sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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