Gate piers to Whitsands Road and boundary wall south-west of 20 Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. Gate piers.
Gate piers to Whitsands Road and boundary wall south-west of 20 Market Place
- WRENN ID
- crooked-span-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1973
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Gate piers to Whitsands Road and boundary wall south-west of 20 Market Place, Gate Piers and Boundary Wall at Rear Entrance of Swaffham Sixth Form Centre, Swaffham, PE37 7BY
- OS grid reference
- TF 817 089
- Coordinates
- 52.64782, 0.68575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and boundary wall located south-west of 20 Market Place were built in the mid-to-late 18th century, with the gate piers being rebuilt in the 19th century.
The gate piers are made of red brick with stone dressings and are square in shape. They provide access from Whitsands Road to the south-west. Each pier is topped with a square stone base and features carved stone vase finials that have gadrooned decoration and pineapple caps. The piers support late-20th century metal gates.
The boundary wall extends approximately 30 meters north-east from the east gate pier. The lower section of the wall has bricks laid diagonally, while the mid-height section of the north-west elevation includes courses of flint rubble. The wall is capped with six courses of conventionally laid red brick.
Local climate
Gate piers to Whitsands Road and boundary wall south-west of 20 Market Place 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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