Gate Piers to Carriage Entrance and Pedestrian Entrance to Castle Howard Park and Adjoining Wall is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. Gate piers.
Gate Piers to Carriage Entrance and Pedestrian Entrance to Castle Howard Park and Adjoining Wall
- WRENN ID
- tall-quartz-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1987
- Type
- Gate piers
- OS grid reference
- SE 713 712
- Coordinates
- 54.13228, -0.90933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers to the carriage entrance and pedestrian entrance to Castle Howard Park, along with the adjoining wall, were likely built in the late 19th century and are made of sandstone. The piers at the carriage entrance are flanked by curving walls that end at additional piers, with a straight wall continuing to the right that leads to the pedestrian entrance. The square-section carriage entrance piers stand approximately 3 metres tall and feature banded-rusticated surfaces topped with a cornice and cushion caps. The wall is about 2.5 metres high, constructed of tooled ashlar with coping stones, and ends in rock-faced piers with domed capitals. To the right, there is a wall approximately 10 metres long and 2.5 metres high, also with coping stones and rock-faced piers with tooled domed capitals. The entrance features 20th-century timber gates. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Gate Piers to Carriage Entrance and Pedestrian Entrance to Castle Howard Park and Adjoining Wall receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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