Gatehouse at Road Entrance to Foxstones is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Gatehouse.
Gatehouse at Road Entrance to Foxstones
- WRENN ID
- haunted-tracery-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1988
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Gatehouse at Road Entrance to Foxstones, St. Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
- OS grid reference
- SW 398 230
- Coordinates
- 50.05071, -5.63485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse at the road entrance to Foxstones was built around 1912 and designed by Drewitt. It is constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings and features a scantle slate pyramidal roof with exposed rafter ends beneath projecting eaves. The gatehouse has a square plan and spans a stream, with a wide carriageway that passes over a bridge within the structure.
The gatehouse is two storeys high and has a round granite arch in the middle of each elevation, with a mid-floor band above and two projecting channelled corbels that resemble gargoyles. On the right-hand (southeast) elevation, there is a U-plan stone stair that leads up to a central doorway of the chamber above the gateway. The main flights of stairs on the left and right sides are opposite weathered buttresses on the opposite elevation. Above these, the steps are cantilevered out and rise to a landing in front of the doorway. The front and left-hand elevations feature central first-floor windows, original ledged doors, and 12-pane casements. The interior has not been inspected. The name of the architect was provided by Commander Favell, a former occupier.
Local climate
Gatehouse at Road Entrance to Foxstones sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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