Whitehurst Garden Gatepiers with Gates and perimeter Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 December 1973. Gate piers and wall.
Whitehurst Garden Gatepiers with Gates and perimeter Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- high-stair-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1973
- Type
- Gate piers and wall
- Address
- Whitehurst Garden Gatepiers with Gates and perimeter Garden Wall, Chirk
- OS grid reference
- SJ 288 398
- Coordinates
- 52.95173, -3.05982
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Whitehurst Garden Gatepiers with Gates and perimeter Garden Wall is a notable structure dating from the late 17th to early 18th century. The main entrance is located on Holyhead Road, featuring tall sandstone ashlar gate piers that stand approximately 3.5 meters high and are square in shape. Each pier is adorned with fielded panels, topped with a necking moulding and cornice. Curved pedestals on each pier once supported urn finials decorated with fruit and vegetables, although these are now broken and held at Whitehurst House.
The iron gates are designed with spear-headed rails and spiked dog rails, and are hung at the base. To the north of the gates, a substantial stone wall with an internal buttress rises towards Whitehurst House. To the south, the stone wall descends, capped with two-stage cut stone weathered copings for about 14 meters, after which it becomes lower and is topped with a simple slab coping. This wall curves around into the valley of the Afon Bradley and continues northeast behind 1931 colliery housing, transitioning to brick about halfway up the steep slope, possibly indicating the start of an 18th-century extension.
The northern end of the gardens is defined by a high straight stone wall that is faced with brick on the inside. This wall contains a stone ashlar gateway featuring a curved lintel and a keystone inscribed with "R.M 1785" (referring to Richard Myddleton), and it has a replacement studded oak door.
Local climate
Whitehurst Garden Gatepiers with Gates and perimeter Garden Wall receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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