Gate Piers and Pair of Gates at the Entrance to Mountains is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Gate piers and gates. 2 related planning applications.
Gate Piers and Pair of Gates at the Entrance to Mountains
- WRENN ID
- lone-pilaster-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Gate piers and gates
- Address
- Gate Piers and Pair of Gates at the Entrance to Mountains, Noble Tree Road, Hildenborough, TN11 8ND
- OS grid reference
- TQ 561 488
- Coordinates
- 51.21771, 0.23514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers, gates, and fencing at the entrance to Mountains are probably from 1865, built alongside the house and likely designed by G. Somers Clarke for the Johnson family. They are an example of High Victorian Gothic style. The gate piers are square at the base and octagonal above, with the upper sections battered and finished with a brattished cornice. Each pier is topped with a Gothic style iron lamp bracket featuring ornamental detail. The iron gates have curved diagonal braces, spike finials, a solid middle rail with pierced ornament, and standards decorated with wrought iron foliage. There are also two curved sections of fencing to the left and right. This is a well-preserved example of a High Victorian gateway.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Pair of Gates at the Entrance to Mountains receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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