South Entrance to Prideaux Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Entrance.
South Entrance to Prideaux Place
- WRENN ID
- little-casement-spring
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- Entrance
- Address
- South Entrance to Prideaux Place, Padstow
- OS grid reference
- SW 913 754
- Coordinates
- 50.54135, -4.94539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The south entrance to Prideaux Place, located in Padstow, dates from around the 18th century, prior to 1758. It is constructed from slate stone rubble and features square-on-plan turrets. The entrance has a semi-circular dressed stone arch, with crenellations above, and is flanked by two square crenellated turrets that have narrow slits and moulded plinths. High stone rubble walls enclose the garden to the south of Prideaux Place. The design of the crenellated entrance is similar to the mock fortifications at the east entrance of Prideaux Place, which were likely added by Edmund Prideaux between 1728 and 1745 or by his son Humphrey before 1758, as illustrated in a print by Borlase.
Local climate
South Entrance to Prideaux Place 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% 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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