Gate Piers and attached Walls at entrance to Halkyn Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2002. Gate piers, walls.
Gate Piers and attached Walls at entrance to Halkyn Castle
- WRENN ID
- far-terrace-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2002
- Type
- Gate piers, walls
- Address
- Gate Piers and attached Walls at entrance to Halkyn Castle, Holywell, CH8 8BX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 208 710
- Coordinates
- 53.23072, -3.18692
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The gate piers and attached walls at the entrance to Halkyn Castle are made of square pecked stone with moulded caps. The flanking walls are constructed from coursed pecked stone and feature moulded copings that curve outwards. These walls end in low square piers with moulded caps, although the cap is missing on the left side. Rubble stone boundary walls are connected to these piers.
Local climate
Gate Piers and attached Walls at entrance to Halkyn Castle receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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