Railings and Gate Piers Enclosing Courtyard to Front of Woolverstone Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1987. Gate piers and railings.
Railings and Gate Piers Enclosing Courtyard to Front of Woolverstone Hall
- WRENN ID
- swift-brick-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1987
- Type
- Gate piers and railings
- OS grid reference
- TM 193 386
- Coordinates
- 52.00269, 1.19482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railings and gate piers enclosing the courtyard in front of Woolverstone Hall were likely built in the 1860s for the Berners family. They are made of cast and wrought iron and ashlar stone. The railings are arranged in quadrants that project forward towards the gate piers. The structure features a plinth and square corniced piers. The railings have bars with decorative scrollwork that create arches between the standards, topped with spear and foliate heads. There are dog bars with foliate finials, and the abutments are twisted and scrolled, adorned with gilded eagle heads. Square lamps are positioned on the gate piers. The gates were in storage at the time of the last survey. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Railings and Gate Piers Enclosing Courtyard to Front of Woolverstone Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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