Gatepiers at Entrance Fron Weymouth Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Gatepiers. 1 related planning application.
Gatepiers at Entrance Fron Weymouth Avenue
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-pier-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Gatepiers
- Address
- Gatepiers at Entrance Fron Weymouth Avenue, Queens Avenue, Dorchester
- OS grid reference
- SY 688 898
- Coordinates
- 50.70729, -2.44204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers at the entrance from Weymouth Avenue, dating from around 1900, are constructed of brick with ashlar coping and dressings. The two main piers feature stone bands, a dentilled cornice, and elaborate capitals made up of four consoles arranged diagonally to support a ball. Each pier has cartouches with "Queens Avenue" incised on them. There are linking walls to four subsidiary piers that flank the pavement, which also have moulded cornices and pagoda caps topped with ball finials.
Local climate
Gatepiers at Entrance Fron Weymouth Avenue receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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