Gate Piers, Flanking Walls and Terminal Piers 200 Metres to North East of Michaelstow House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1988. Gate piers, flanking walls, terminal piers.
Gate Piers, Flanking Walls and Terminal Piers 200 Metres to North East of Michaelstow House
- WRENN ID
- north-step-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Gate piers, flanking walls, terminal piers
- OS grid reference
- SX 074 785
- Coordinates
- 50.57505, -4.72066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This structure consists of a set of three gate piers, flanking walls, and terminal piers, located 200 meters to the northeast of Michaelstow House. Built in 1869, it is made of granite and granite ashlar. There are two gate piers for the main drive and an additional pier for a separate pedestrian entrance, accompanied by flanking quadrant walls and terminal piers.
The tall, square-plan granite monolith gate piers feature moulded bases and cornices, each topped with large urns. The granite ashlar flanking quadrant walls have moulded granite coping and end with granite monolith terminal piers that match the design of the gate piers. The entrance is fitted with contemporary iron gates that have ramped rails and twisted iron uprights resting on the moulded coping of the quadrant walls; these gates likely originally had a chain link, which has since been removed. This entrance serves Tregenna House, now known as Michaelstow House, which was built for William Hocken in 1869.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Flanking Walls and Terminal Piers 200 Metres to North East of Michaelstow House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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