Forecourt Railings, Gates and Gatepieces at the Great Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1986. Railings, gates, gatepieces.
Forecourt Railings, Gates and Gatepieces at the Great Hospital
- WRENN ID
- winter-copper-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1986
- Type
- Railings, gates, gatepieces
- Address
- Forecourt Railings, Gates and Gatepieces at the Great Hospital, Bishopgate
- OS grid reference
- TG 236 090
- Coordinates
- 52.63269, 1.30409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The forecourt railings, gates, and gatepieces at The Great Hospital were designed in 1799 by John Browne, following Mr. Bird's plan. The entrance features hollow iron gate pieces with lattice panels and ball finials, which flank wrought iron double gates. On either side of the gates, there are spearhead railings attached to a stone dwarf wall, consisting of nine iron panels. Smaller gates are positioned to the right and left, each flanked by later brick piers topped with ball finials.
Local climate
Forecourt Railings, Gates and Gatepieces at the Great Hospital 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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