Beach terrace with attached gate piers and gates, Silvergates is a Grade II listed building in the Arun local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 2005. Beach terrace, gate piers, gates.

Beach terrace with attached gate piers and gates, Silvergates

WRENN ID
half-bracket-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Arun
Constituency
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton MP: Alison Griffiths (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 July 2005
Type
Beach terrace, gate piers, gates
OS grid reference
SZ 908 981
Coordinates
50.77595, -0.71281
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Beach terrace with attached gate piers and gates at Silvergates, No. 52, was built around 1934. It was designed by Ernest B Glanfield FRIBA, who also designed the main house "Silvergates". To the south of "Silvergates" is a flint wall approximately three feet high, featuring a central pedestrian garden gate that is accessed via a flight of seven curved brick steps. There are two tall painted brick gate piers with stepped brick coping, flanked by sections of ramped brickwork. An attached cast and wrought iron pedestrian gate includes a scrolled wrought iron overthrow, three scrollwork panels, and a dograil. This gate leads to a raised terrace, which has east, west, and south walls made of Bognor rock, with brick piers at regular intervals on the south side and a central wooden gate. The terrace features a stone floor with pebble bands along the sides, displaying curved patterns at regular intervals. The post-War concrete balustrading on the south wall is not considered of special interest. This beach terrace was purpose-built for entertaining and is significant as it was designed by the same architect as the main house.

Local climate

Beach terrace with attached gate piers and gates, Silvergates receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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