Gate Piers on North Side of Old Thornville is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 Gate piers.
Gate Piers on North Side of Old Thornville
- WRENN ID
- proud-buttress-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Gate Piers on North Side of Old Thornville, Planetree Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 456 547
- Coordinates
- 53.98647, -1.30559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are two gate piers located on the north side of Old Thornville, possibly dating from the 17th century. They are constructed from brick, cobble, and ashlar. The piers feature square-section brick shafts that are decorated with sunken square panels filled with cobbles. Each pier is topped with ashlar capping and ball finials. The materials used may have been re-used from other structures.
Local climate
Gate Piers on North Side of Old Thornville receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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