Gate and Gate-Piers at East Entrance to Penpont House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. Gate. 1 related planning application.

Gate and Gate-Piers at East Entrance to Penpont House

WRENN ID
calm-moat-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1988
Type
Gate
Address
Gate and Gate-Piers at East Entrance to Penpont House, Altarnun, PL15 7SJ
OS grid reference
SX 223 812
Coordinates
50.6039, -4.51214
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building comprises a gate and gate-piers at the east entrance to Penpont House, dating from around the middle of the 19th century. The gate-piers are a pair of granite monoliths, square in plan, with pyramid moulded tops. The gate itself is made of 19th-century cast iron, featuring curved braces. The gate’s uprights terminate in arrowheads and scrolled ornamentation below, and have scrolled cresting above the top rail.

Local climate

Gate and Gate-Piers at East Entrance to Penpont 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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  • Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
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  • 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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