Gateway, Balustrading and Steps Over Ha Ha, 110 Metres South of Orwell Park School is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Gateway.
Gateway, Balustrading and Steps Over Ha Ha, 110 Metres South of Orwell Park School
- WRENN ID
- veiled-glass-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Gateway
- OS grid reference
- TM 217 394
- Coordinates
- 52.00885, 1.22927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway, balustrading, and steps over the ha-ha, located 110 metres south of Orwell Park School, is a ceremonial structure that provides access from the south lawn of Orwell Park to the lower lawn beyond. It was built around 1873 and is situated on a grassed bank elevated above the general level of the lawn, approached by a flight of steps on either side. Another flight of steps leads directly from the gateway to span the ha-ha. The structure is made of dressed limestone. The pair of gatepiers features panelled faces, moulded cornices, and gadrooned urns with carved swags on top. A lintel of scrolled wrought ironwork spans the piers, although the pair of wrought iron gates below are no longer present. Each flight of steps is flanked by solid balustrading, with square sunk-panelled piers at both the top and bottom. At the upper level, on either side of the gatepiers, there is a short length of open balustrading with turned balusters.
Local climate
Gateway, Balustrading and Steps Over Ha Ha, 110 Metres South of Orwell Park School 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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