Terrace Walls, Piers and Steps About 4 Metres East of Pentillie Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Terrace walls.

Terrace Walls, Piers and Steps About 4 Metres East of Pentillie Castle

WRENN ID
hallowed-glass-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1987
Type
Terrace walls
OS grid reference
SX 410 645
Coordinates
50.4592, -4.24129
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The terrace walls, piers, and steps located about 4 metres east of Pentillie Castle date from the 19th century. They are constructed from slatestone rubble with granite coping and granite piers. The retaining walls are faced in granite on the garden side and topped with granite coping. There is a central pair of square granite piers, each about one metre high with pyramidal caps. The walls extend approximately 35 metres in length. A central flight of 15 granite steps is flanked by ramped walls and similar terminal piers. At the lower level, there is a similar retaining wall with another flight of granite steps and piers to the left.

Local climate

Terrace Walls, Piers and Steps About 4 Metres East of Pentillie Castle 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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