Front Gate Piers and Wall for Lorton Park is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Gate piers and wall.
Front Gate Piers and Wall for Lorton Park
- WRENN ID
- hollow-mantel-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gate piers and wall
- Address
- Front Gate Piers and Wall for Lorton Park, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 160 258
- Coordinates
- 54.62042, -3.30208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The front gate piers and wall for Lorton Park were built in the early 19th century. They feature painted incised stucco walls topped with saddle-back coping. The rectangular piers are also made of painted stucco and are adorned with 20th-century lion finials. The walls are serpentine in shape and include square end piers. This structure is listed for its group value with Lorton Park.
Local climate
Front Gate Piers and Wall for Lorton Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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