Wrought Iron Screen and Gates with Piers at Bretons is a Grade II* listed building in the Havering local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1955. Screen and gates.
Wrought Iron Screen and Gates with Piers at Bretons
- WRENN ID
- moated-brass-dock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Havering
- Constituency
- Dagenham and Rainham MP: Margaret Mullane (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1955
- Type
- Screen and gates
- Address
- Wrought Iron Screen and Gates with Piers at Bretons, Rainham Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 517 848
- Coordinates
- 51.54218, 0.18675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wrought iron screen and gates with piers at Bretons, located on Rainham Road in Hornchurch, date from around 1740. They feature a well-crafted wrought-iron bowed clairvoyee at the front, along with double carriage gates topped with an overthrow. The gates are flanked by brick piers.
Local climate
Wrought Iron Screen and Gates with Piers at Bretons sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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