Former Entrance Gates and Piers to Spring Grove House (Now West Thames College) is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 2002. Gatehouse. 1 related planning application.
Former Entrance Gates and Piers to Spring Grove House (Now West Thames College)
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-minaret-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hounslow
- Constituency
- Brentford and Isleworth MP: Ruth Cadbury (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 2002
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Former Entrance Gates and Piers to Spring Grove House (Now West Thames College), London Road, TW7 4EP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 151 764
- Coordinates
- 51.47494, -0.34285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former entrance gates and piers, now part of West Thames College, date from circa 1894 and were originally part of the late Victorian embellishment of Spring Grove House, commissioned by soap magnate Andrew Pears. William Catherwood served as the executive architect for alterations to the house between 1892 and 1894.
The gates are made of elaborate wrought iron and are set between banded brick piers with short lengths of walling on either side. The double gates feature an elaborate scrolled top, cast iron cartouches to the centres, decorative scrolled bottoms, and a baluster finial to the central post. The square hollow piers match the railings and are topped with Ionic capitals. Flanking doors, with matching overthrows, are also present. The outer piers are constructed of red brick with Portland stone bases, banding, and capitals. Curved, upswept sections of walling are finished with Portland stone coping. These gates are highly elaborate and represent the fashionable Louis XV style of the time, as described in 'Spring Grove House: A History' by Peter Rowlands (2001).
Local climate
Former Entrance Gates and Piers to Spring Grove House (Now West Thames College) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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