Gatepiers and Flanking Walls to Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1967. Gate piers and wall.
Gatepiers and Flanking Walls to Dower House
- WRENN ID
- final-steel-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1967
- Type
- Gate piers and wall
- Address
- Gatepiers and Flanking Walls to Dower House, West Bank, Winster, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 239 605
- Coordinates
- 53.14181, -1.64271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and flanking walls to the Dower House date from the late 17th century. The gate piers are made of gritstone and are square in shape, featuring carved decorations such as grotesque masks, foliage, cartouches, guttae, and serpents. Each pier is topped with a square moulded cap. These piers are connected to a boundary wall constructed from large ashlar gritstone and rubble limestone, which has shallow hogsback copings.
Local climate
Gatepiers and Flanking Walls to Dower House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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