Gatepiers and Boundary Walls to No. 32 is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 2010. Gatepiers and boundary walls.

Gatepiers and Boundary Walls to No. 32

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 2010
Type
Gatepiers and boundary walls
Address
Gatepiers and Boundary Walls to No. 32, Oldfield Road
OS grid reference
ST 741 640
Coordinates
51.3746, -2.37216
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gatepiers and boundary walls to No. 32 on Oldfield Road date from around 1840 and are constructed of ashlar. There are two pairs of slender square piers, one pair opposite the main entrance to Oldfield Villa and a higher pair to the right. The bases of the piers are partly concealed by later paving. Each pier features incised panels on the front and has heavy moulded cappings topped with pyramids that carry rounded terminal blocks. The pier on the extreme right is inscribed with "MOUNT ROSE" and is adjacent to No. 32, indicating that it was originally built as part of No. 32. Between the piers, and to the left, there is a well-crafted ashlar wall made of deep blocks, with coping that sweeps up to the piers. The wall has ashlar courses and coping that slope slightly to follow the fall of the road and returns to both sides of the site. These structures are important contemporary features of the villa, although they no longer have their original gates.

Local climate

Gatepiers and Boundary Walls to No. 32 receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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