Gate Piers and Associated Wall to Townend Cottage, Home Farm, Manifold Cottage, Dove Cottage, The Cottage and Number 2 Orchard View is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1985. Gate piers and wall.
Gate Piers and Associated Wall to Townend Cottage, Home Farm, Manifold Cottage, Dove Cottage, The Cottage and Number 2 Orchard View
- WRENN ID
- over-sill-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1985
- Type
- Gate piers and wall
- Address
- Gate Piers and Associated Wall to Townend Cottage, Home Farm, Manifold Cottage, Dove Cottage, The Cottage and Number 2 Orchard View, Ilam, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 136 509
- Coordinates
- 53.05524, -1.79845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and associated wall to Townend Cottage, Home Farm, Manifold Cottage, Dove Cottage, The Cottage, and Number 2 Orchard View were built around 1855, possibly by the architect George Gilbert Scott. The structure is made of ashlar stone and features a coped parapet. It consists of approximately 300 yards of low wall, which is two courses high, and is interrupted between The Cottage and Number 2 Orchard View. There are five pairs of square-section gate piers with stop-chamfered edges, each topped with gabled caps that have roll-moulded ridges; the caps on the piers for Dove Cottage are truncated. This wall and gate piers are an important part of the picturesque setting of the model village created by Scott.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Associated Wall to Townend Cottage, Home Farm, Manifold Cottage, Dove Cottage, The Cottage and Number 2 Orchard View receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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