Gate Piers at Village Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1966. Gate piers. 1 related planning application.

Gate Piers at Village Entrance

WRENN ID
high-shingle-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1966
Type
Gate piers
Address
Gate Piers at Village Entrance, Knaresborough Road, Goldsborough
OS grid reference
SE 379 562
Coordinates
54.00103, -1.42184
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gate piers at the entrance to the village date from the late 18th century and are constructed of ashlar stone. There are inner and outer pairs of gate piers. The inner pair is square in section and stands approximately 4 metres high, featuring rusticated masonry with a projecting band below a plain entablature adorned with paterae. They have stepped caps topped with ball finials. The outer piers are about 3 metres high, also made of rusticated masonry, with a projecting band and shallow pyramidal caps. There are no gates present.

Local climate

Gate Piers at Village Entrance receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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