Garden Wall and Gate Piers at Castle Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Garden wall and gate piers.

Garden Wall and Gate Piers at Castle Hill House

WRENN ID
ragged-dormer-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Type
Garden wall and gate piers
Address
Garden Wall and Gate Piers at Castle Hill House, Castle Street, Launceston
OS grid reference
SX 330 847
Coordinates
50.63817, -4.362
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden wall and gate piers at Castle Hill House date from the early to mid-18th century. The structure features a high red brick wall built on a rubble plinth. On the west side of the garden, there is a central gateway flanked by square piers that have a moulded stone cornice.

Local climate

Garden Wall and Gate Piers at Castle Hill 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 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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