4 Bronze Gun Carriages Situated in Front of the Powell Cotton Museum Building is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. Cannon. 3 related planning applications.
4 Bronze Gun Carriages Situated in Front of the Powell Cotton Museum Building
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-passage-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- Cannon
- Address
- 4 Bronze Gun Carriages Situated in Front of the Powell Cotton Museum Building, Birchington, CT7 0BH
- OS grid reference
- TR 308 682
- Coordinates
- 51.36669, 1.31503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are four bronze gun carriages located in front of the Powell Cotton Museum building in Quex Park, Birchington-on-Sea. The first gun is from the Papal States and was cast in Amsterdam in 1637, featuring dolphin handles. The second gun is a Venetian Fort gun that was captured by the Turks and recovered in 1828. The third and fourth guns are Naval 32 powder guns from the Royal George, which sank off Spithead in 1782. One of these was made in 1743 and the other in 1759, and both also have dolphin handles.
Local climate
4 Bronze Gun Carriages Situated in Front of the Powell Cotton Museum Building sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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