Garden Walls and Gatepiers to the Abbey House is a Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1954. A 1811 Garden wall, gatepier. 2 related planning applications.

Garden Walls and Gatepiers to the Abbey House

WRENN ID
pale-stronghold-azure
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1954
Type
Garden wall, gatepier
Address
Garden Walls and Gatepiers to the Abbey House, Whitby, YO22 4JT
OS grid reference
NZ 902 112
Coordinates
54.48856, -0.60875
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls and gatepiers to the Abbey House date from 1811. The old garden walls feature a significant amount of carved stonework from the 12th and 13th centuries. In front of the main elevation, there are a pair of late 17th-century gatepiers, one of which is adorned with a griffin crest, marking the original entrance to the late 17th-century house.

Local climate

Garden Walls and Gatepiers to the Abbey House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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