Pair of Gate-Piers at North Entrance to Oak House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. Gate-piers.
Pair of Gate-Piers at North Entrance to Oak House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-steel-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1988
- Type
- Gate-piers
- Address
- Pair of Gate-Piers at North Entrance to Oak House, Altarnun
- OS grid reference
- SX 222 814
- Coordinates
- 50.60533, -4.51289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of gate-piers located at the north entrance to Oak House, dating from around the mid-19th century. They are constructed from granite ashlar and are square in shape, topped with shallow pyramid caps.
Local climate
Pair of Gate-Piers at North Entrance to Oak House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 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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