Gate Piers and Wall to Kirby Hall Fronting Road is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. Gate piers and wall. 2 related planning applications.
Gate Piers and Wall to Kirby Hall Fronting Road
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-steel-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1982
- Type
- Gate piers and wall
- Address
- Gate Piers and Wall to Kirby Hall Fronting Road, the Street, Horton Kirby and South Darenth, DA4 9BY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 559 681
- Coordinates
- 51.39103, 0.2406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These gate piers and associated wall date to circa 1790 and originally fronted Kirby Hall. The design comprises two square piers, approximately 10 feet in height, decorated with bands of five glyphs in place of the more traditional triglyphs. Each pier is flanked by a curved brick wall constructed in a header bond pattern, along with a section of wall approximately 4 feet high, also in header bond.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Wall to Kirby Hall Fronting Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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