Gateway at South Entrance to King's Acre is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Gateway.
Gateway at South Entrance to King's Acre
- WRENN ID
- silent-gable-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Gateway at South Entrance to King's Acre, Luxulyan
- OS grid reference
- SX 051 581
- Coordinates
- 50.39047, -4.74294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway at the south entrance to King's Acre is an early 19th-century structure made of granite ashlar. It features a pair of piers with walls that sweep forward on either side, terminating in additional piers. The walls stand approximately 1.5 meters high and are topped with moulded granite coping, extending about 6 meters forward. Each end of the walls has a square-plan pier with a shaped granite cap.
Local climate
Gateway at South Entrance to King's Acre sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 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 0.2°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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