Two Pairs of Gatepiers at the Junction with Weston Road 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.
Two Pairs of Gatepiers at the Junction with Weston Road
- WRENN ID
- patient-quoin-bracken
- 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
- Address
- Two Pairs of Gatepiers at the Junction with Weston Road, Park Lane
- OS grid reference
- ST 737 656
- Coordinates
- 51.38908, -2.37825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two pairs of gatepiers mark the entrance to Royal Victoria Park at the junction of Park Lane and Weston Road. They were built around 1880, likely designed by the City Surveyor, Charles Davis, after the Bath Corporation purchased the Commons from the City Freemen in 1879.
The gatepiers are made of limestone ashlar. Each pier is nearly one metre square and approximately 3 metres high, flanking pedestrian entrances on either side of the carriage entrance. They feature a low moulded plinth, chamfered banded rustication on the shafts, a wide dentil cornice, and a block cap. The inner facets have plain ashlar uprights with key pattern tops beneath the cornices, which were formerly used for gate fixings.
A surveyor's plan from 1879, approved by the Council, indicates that the triangle of land in the north-west corner was part of the Common and did not have a road or entrance at that time.
Local climate
Two Pairs of Gatepiers at the Junction with Weston Road 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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