Piers and Front Railings Extend Aprroximately 30 Metres to Front of Commandant's House is a Grade II listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1971. Railings and piers.
Piers and Front Railings Extend Aprroximately 30 Metres to Front of Commandant's House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-column-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gosport
- Constituency
- Gosport MP: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1971
- Type
- Railings and piers
- OS grid reference
- SU 610 003
- Coordinates
- 50.79953, -1.13438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The piers and front railings date from around 1847 and are located in front of the Commandant's House, which was part of the former Forton barracks. They are constructed from brick with stone dressings and cast-iron elements. The structure features two pairs of piers that have stone bands and caps, connected by a central dwarf wall topped with spear-headed railings. The total length of the railings extends approximately 30 meters.
Local climate
Piers and Front Railings Extend Aprroximately 30 Metres to Front of Commandant's House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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