Department of Botany, Entrance Gates and Piers with Attached Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Entrance gates.
Department of Botany, Entrance Gates and Piers with Attached Walls
- WRENN ID
- solemn-bastion-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Entrance gates
- OS grid reference
- ST 580 733
- Coordinates
- 51.45726, -2.605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance gates and piers with attached walls for the Department of Botany in Bristol were built in 1905 by Sir G Oatley. They feature a pair of octagonal piers topped with panelled caps. The walls are made of rubble and are approximately 10 meters long on each side. Additionally, there are well-crafted wrought-iron lamp stands with copper panels, along with gates that have decorative leaves.
Local climate
Department of Botany, Entrance Gates and Piers with Attached Walls receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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