Quadrant Walls and Gate Piers to Tongswood Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. A 20th century Gate piers and wall.
Quadrant Walls and Gate Piers to Tongswood Drive
- WRENN ID
- broken-floor-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Gate piers and wall
- Period
- 20th century
- Address
- Quadrant Walls and Gate Piers to Tongswood Drive, Rye Road, Hawkhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 774 301
- Coordinates
- 51.04361, 0.53014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The quadrant walls and gate piers at Tongswood Drive were built in the early 20th century and are designed in a Free Baroque revival style. They are constructed from red brick with ashlar details and feature cast or wrought iron railings. The stone gate piers are panelled and topped with a modillion cornice, which originally supported a ball-finial, though the ball is missing from the right-hand pier. The brick quadrant walls curve concavely to the left and right, with the cornice featuring semi-circular sweeps filled with spear-head rails and scrolled center panels, culminating in a pedimented central feature. The quadrants are finished with lower stone piers, and the walls extend approximately 10 yards to the right and about 40 yards to the left. The central iron carriage gate is currently missing. This structure once served as the main entrance to the Tongswood estate.
Local climate
Quadrant Walls and Gate Piers to Tongswood Drive receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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