Fence, Piers and Gate to Brighton College Playing Fields is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Fence.

Fence, Piers and Gate to Brighton College Playing Fields

WRENN ID
plain-landing-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1999
Type
Fence
Address
Fence, Piers and Gate to Brighton College Playing Fields, College Terrace, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 324 042
Coordinates
50.82299, -0.12061
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The fence, piers, and gate to the Brighton College Playing Fields were built between 1886 and 1887 and designed by architect Thomas Graham Jackson, who also worked on the Eastern Road range and Chapel extension of the College. The structure features iron cast by Heart, Son, Peard and Co. of Birmingham, with a combination of flint and brick, along with stone dressings and copings. The plain piers are rectangular in shape, and between each pair is a low plinth made of flint with a stone coping, topped by cast-iron spearhead uprights. The middle upright is designed as a fluted colonnette and is crowned with a fleur-de-lys. At the southernmost end of the fence, where it meets Walpole Terrace, the gate piers are taller than the others and are topped with simple obelisks. Some of the uprights on the northern sections of the fence are missing, and the piers in that area are damaged.

Local climate

Fence, Piers and Gate to Brighton College Playing Fields receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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