Gateway and Wall Attached to East of Health Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. A C17 Gateway and wall.
Gateway and Wall Attached to East of Health Offices
- WRENN ID
- solitary-shingle-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gateway and wall
- OS grid reference
- SX 332 846
- Coordinates
- 50.6375, -4.35935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway and attached wall, located to the east of the Health Offices on Market Street in Launceston, date back to 1611, as indicated by the inscribed date in relief along with the words "NB BEGAN." The structure features a wall made of slatestone and granite rubble, with a wide dressed granite finish. The gateway itself has a chamfered and moulded design, presenting a 4-centred arch, topped with a shallow segmental brick arch.
Local climate
Gateway and Wall Attached to East of Health Offices sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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