Gate Piers and attached Walls at entrance to Gwysaney is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2002. Gate piers and walls.

Gate Piers and attached Walls at entrance to Gwysaney

WRENN ID
hidden-steel-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 2002
Type
Gate piers and walls
Address
Gate Piers and attached Walls at entrance to Gwysaney, Holywell, Halkyn
OS grid reference
SJ 227 655
Coordinates
53.18108, -3.1577
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The gate piers and attached walls at the entrance to Gwysaney are made of square piers constructed from coursed hammer-dressed stone. These piers feature pyramidal caps and broad low moulded finials. The convex flanking walls have saddleback copings and curve outwards, ending with piers that match the main gateway. Additionally, low rubble-stone walls are attached at both ends.

Local climate

Gate Piers and attached Walls at entrance to Gwysaney 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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