Gate Piers and Screen Walls to Parkventon is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1994. Gate piers and screen walls.
Gate Piers and Screen Walls to Parkventon
- WRENN ID
- young-gutter-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1994
- Type
- Gate piers and screen walls
- Address
- Gate Piers and Screen Walls to Parkventon, Ratcliffes Lane, Helston
- OS grid reference
- SW 653 273
- Coordinates
- 50.09968, -5.28212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and screen walls at Parkventon date from the early 19th century. They are constructed from elvan ashlar with granite copings. The gate and terminal piers are square in plan, made from monolithic granite, and topped with pyramidal caps. The walls are cyma on plan and positioned at an angle to the road. An old wooden gate features shaped heads on the stiles, a round-arched brace beneath the lock rail, and an arcade of pointed arches above.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Screen Walls to Parkventon receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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