Gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 2011. Gatepiers. 1 related planning application.
Gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park
- WRENN ID
- brooding-porch-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 2011
- Type
- Gatepiers
- Address
- Gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park, Park Lane, BA1 2XG
- OS grid reference
- ST 737 654
- Coordinates
- 51.38733, -2.37866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park are made of limestone ashlar and feature lower supporters on either side. Each pier has a plinth, three bands of rustication, and a frieze. The supporters are hipped to the main pier, which rises and includes inset polished granite panels on the front and back. A heavy modillion cornice is adorned with carved heraldic animals, specifically a lion and a bear, each supporting a shield and facing each other across the gateway.
Local climate
Gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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