Screen Wall to Entrance Front of Somerleyton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. Screen wall, entrance gates.
Screen Wall to Entrance Front of Somerleyton Hall
- WRENN ID
- quiet-joist-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Lowestoft MP: Jess Asato (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- Screen wall, entrance gates
- Address
- Screen Wall to Entrance Front of Somerleyton Hall, Ashby and Herringfleet
- OS grid reference
- TM 493 977
- Coordinates
- 52.52097, 1.67368
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The screen wall and entrance gates to Somerleyton Hall were built around 1846 by John Thomas for Sir Morton Peto. The structure is primarily made of stone, with some red brick, and stands approximately 3 meters high. The upper part of the wall is pierced, and the center section curves forward to form the gateway. At each end of the curved sections, there are square wall piers topped with urns. The central gateway features heavy rusticated piers, each pierced by an arched pedestrian side entrance with a wrought iron gate. The piers are adorned with couchant stags that face each other across the entrance; these were renewed in 1975. The main gates are made of wrought iron. At both ends of the wall, square piers are crowned by bronze lamps supported by four winged lions, connecting the wall to the stable court and the Hall. The surrounding park and gardens are listed in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade II*.
Local climate
Screen Wall to Entrance Front of Somerleyton Hall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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