Wall and Gate Piers at Entrance to the Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Wall and gate piers.
Wall and Gate Piers at Entrance to the Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- lone-hearth-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Wall and gate piers
- Address
- Wall and Gate Piers at Entrance to the Old Vicarage, Low Road, Brigham
- OS grid reference
- NY 088 308
- Coordinates
- 54.66455, -3.4146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall and gate piers at the entrance to The Old Vicarage were built in the early 19th century. They are made of calciferous sandstone rubble for the wall and ashlar for the piers. The wall is low and has a serpentine shape with saddle-back coping. The square piers are rusticated and topped with pyramidal caps. This structure is listed for its group value with The Old Vicarage.
Local climate
Wall and Gate Piers at Entrance to the Old Vicarage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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