Walls, Piers and Gates at South Entrance to Penquite House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Gatehouse. 1 related planning application.
Walls, Piers and Gates at South Entrance to Penquite House
- WRENN ID
- gilded-entrance-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Walls, Piers and Gates at South Entrance to Penquite House, St. Sampson, PL23 1LA
- OS grid reference
- SX 113 548
- Coordinates
- 50.36292, -4.65396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls, piers, and gates at the south entrance to Penquite House date from the mid-19th century and are constructed from granite ashlar with cast iron gates. The structure includes two short sections of wall, each approximately 1.5 metres high, which curve outward to the right and left of the gateway. The gateway features square plan rusticated piers that stand about 2 metres high, topped with moulded caps and ball finials on stems. The pair of gates has paired mid-rails with ovals in between, and the top rail is ramped up towards the centre, with ball and spike finials on the stanchions. The walls are finished with moulded coping.
Local climate
Walls, Piers and Gates at South Entrance to Penquite House 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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