Pair of Gate Piers at the Entrance to the Drive to Cotehele House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Gate piers. 1 related planning application.
Pair of Gate Piers at the Entrance to the Drive to Cotehele House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-steeple-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Pair of Gate Piers at the Entrance to the Drive to Cotehele House, Calstock, PL12 6TA
- OS grid reference
- SX 423 680
- Coordinates
- 50.49141, -4.22415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of gate piers from the 19th century located at the entrance to the drive leading to Cotehele House. They are made of granite ashlar and feature square plan rusticated piers that stand approximately 2 meters high. Each pier is set on a plinth and has a plain cornice topped with a pyramidal cap. The entrance is fitted with 20th-century wooden gates.
Local climate
Pair of Gate Piers at the Entrance to the Drive to Cotehele House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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