Gatepiers to South of Gosforth Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1967. A Jacobean Gatepiers.

Gatepiers to South of Gosforth Hall

WRENN ID
twelfth-trefoil-wax
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1967
Type
Gatepiers
Period
Jacobean
Address
Gatepiers to South of Gosforth Hall, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 071 036
Coordinates
54.41954, -3.4322
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gatepiers to the south of Gosforth Hall were built around 1658 for Robert and Isabel Copley. They are made of sandstone and are square in plan, standing approximately 12 feet high overall. Each gatepier features monolithic uprights with cavetto and roll mouldings between a plinth block and a frieze that has scroll decoration. At the top, there is a deeply moulded capital adorned with cable decoration, which is surmounted by a large ball finial on an ornately-moulded plinth. The capital mouldings originally extended as coping to walls that are now demolished, which flanked the drive.

Local climate

Gatepiers to South of Gosforth Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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