Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Gate piers.
Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- keen-eave-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1984
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Gate Piers, Ely Road, Waterbeach
- OS grid reference
- TL 488 686
- Coordinates
- 52.29563, 0.18178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers, likely built around 1814, incorporate 14th-century moulded stone from the Franciscan church and are topped with Grecian urns. These piers are classified as Crown Property.
Local climate
Gate Piers sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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