Pair of Gate Piers and Gates on South Side of Road, 50 Metres South of Model Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. Gate piers and gates.
Pair of Gate Piers and Gates on South Side of Road, 50 Metres South of Model Farm
- WRENN ID
- waiting-sentry-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1988
- Type
- Gate piers and gates
- OS grid reference
- TM 041 565
- Coordinates
- 52.16924, 0.98446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of gate piers and gates, built around 1867 for Lankester Webb, is located on the south side of Combs Park Road, 50 meters south of Model Farm. They once provided access to a roadway leading to the Tannery. The gate piers stand approximately 2.3 meters high and are 0.5 meters square, featuring a slight chamfer and resting on a splayed plinth made of gault brick. Each pier is topped with a heavy weathered capping of reconstituted stone, which is complemented by a simple moulded brick cornice below. The gates themselves are made of painted timber, framed in oblong panels, each with a stop chamfer on the edges. The outer stile of each gate extends upward in a swan-neck shape, supporting the top rail with a diagonal iron bar. The lower row of panels is boarded, while the upper row is saltire-braced. These gates and piers are included for their group value.
Local climate
Pair of Gate Piers and Gates on South Side of Road, 50 Metres South of Model Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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