Entrance Walls and Gate Piers to Moresby Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1967. Entrance walls, gate piers.
Entrance Walls and Gate Piers to Moresby Hall
- WRENN ID
- fallow-fireplace-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1967
- Type
- Entrance walls, gate piers
- Address
- Entrance Walls and Gate Piers to Moresby Hall, Parton
- OS grid reference
- NX 983 209
- Coordinates
- 54.57343, -3.57421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance walls and gate piers to Moresby Hall, likely built in the late 17th century, feature a snecked rubble wall that stands approximately 6 feet high and has triangular coping. The gate piers are rusticated, square in plan, and rise about 8 feet high, topped with domical caps that have cornices.
Local climate
Entrance Walls and Gate Piers to Moresby Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,560 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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