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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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