Ha-Ha, Gate Piers and Gate to North of Arbour Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1987. Ha-ha, gate piers, gate.
Ha-Ha, Gate Piers and Gate to North of Arbour Hill House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-spindle-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1987
- Type
- Ha-ha, gate piers, gate
- Address
- Ha-Ha, Gate Piers and Gate to North of Arbour Hill House, Hornby Park, DL8 1JX
- OS grid reference
- SE 222 925
- Coordinates
- 54.3284, -1.65884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ha-ha, gate piers, and gate to the north of Arbour Hill House were built in the mid-18th century for Robert Conyers Darcy, the Earl of Holderness, of Hornby Castle. The ha-ha is made of coursed rubble and has a semicircular plan, standing approximately one metre high with saddleback coping. It features a central opening, with the ha-ha wall returning to flank five ashlar steps. At the corners, there are square gate piers topped with pyramidal caps. The gate itself has plain round bars.
Local climate
Ha-Ha, Gate Piers and Gate to North of Arbour Hill House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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