Gate Piers and Flanking Walls at Approximately 300 Metres West North West of Penwarne House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Gate-piers and flanking walls.
Gate Piers and Flanking Walls at Approximately 300 Metres West North West of Penwarne House
- WRENN ID
- endless-stronghold-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Gate-piers and flanking walls
- OS grid reference
- SW 770 304
- Coordinates
- 50.13179, -5.12028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate-piers and flanking walls, located approximately 300 metres west-northwest of Penwarne House, date from the late 18th century or early 19th century. They are constructed from rusticated granite ashlar, featuring dressed granite copings and piers. The wide gateway is flanked by square piers that connect to concave quadrant walls, which have squat square terminal piers. The gate-piers have monolithic shafts topped with concave pyramidal caps. The lower flanking walls also have copings of a similar design, while the ashlar terminal piers feature larger caps of the same style.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Flanking Walls at Approximately 300 Metres West North West of Penwarne House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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