Gateway with Settles, Gate Piers, Gate and Flanking Walls at Road Frontage to Former National School is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Gateway.

Gateway with Settles, Gate Piers, Gate and Flanking Walls at Road Frontage to Former National School

WRENN ID
sheer-grate-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1988
Type
Gateway
Address
Gateway with Settles, Gate Piers, Gate and Flanking Walls at Road Frontage to Former National School, Wendron
OS grid reference
SW 677 307
Coordinates
50.131, -5.25149
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a gateway with settles, gate piers, gates, and flanking walls located at the road frontage of the former National School, likely built around 1836. It is constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings. The pedestrian gateway provides access through the wall of the schoolyard. On either side of the gateway, there are stone settles, each featuring a low back. The walls are topped with rubble copings and dressed granite terminal copings. The original gate is made of wrought iron and has a hooped top rail.

Local climate

Gateway with Settles, Gate Piers, Gate and Flanking Walls at Road Frontage to Former National School 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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