Piers and Wall at the Entrance Gateway to Glencairn is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1988. Gateway.
Piers and Wall at the Entrance Gateway to Glencairn
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-lancet-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1988
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Piers and Wall at the Entrance Gateway to Glencairn, Union Hill, St. Columb Major
- OS grid reference
- SW 913 635
- Coordinates
- 50.43482, -4.93951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The piers and wall at the entrance gateway to Glencairn, located in St Columb Major, were built in the mid to late 19th century. They are constructed from granite ashlar and feature cast iron railings and gates. The entrance serves as a screen and includes four rusticated square plan piers, each approximately 3 meters high, topped with a modillion cornice and stepped caps that are adorned with urns. The central pair of piers supports a set of cast iron gates, which have trefoil finials on the top rails.
A low battered ashlar wall with moulded coping sweeps forward to the right and left, leading up to the outer piers and is complemented by plain spear-headed railings. This ashlar wall continues to the right as a boundary wall, resting on a rusticated plinth with stepped moulded copings, although the railings have been removed. The boundary wall extends about 20 meters and features one ashlar pier on a battered rock-faced plinth, which has blind panels, a cornice, and a knob finial. The terminal pier is made of rock-faced rubble and has a pyramidal cap.
Local climate
Piers and Wall at the Entrance Gateway to Glencairn receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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