Gate Piers Approximately 10 Metres East of Mappowder Court Together with Walls and Piers to North and South of Courtyard is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Gate piers.
Gate Piers Approximately 10 Metres East of Mappowder Court Together with Walls and Piers to North and South of Courtyard
- WRENN ID
- steep-corner-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Gate piers
- OS grid reference
- ST 739 057
- Coordinates
- 50.85108, -2.37191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers, located approximately 10 meters east of Mappowder Court, date from around 1800. They are made of monolithic stone carved to resemble rusticated ashlar and feature plinths and moulded caps topped with busts representing moors. The walls on either side of the courtyard are constructed from coursed squared rubble with moulded copings. The gate piers are partly made of brick and partly of stone, with moulded caps and some ball finials. The south gate is made of wrought iron.
Local climate
Gate Piers Approximately 10 Metres East of Mappowder Court Together with Walls and Piers to North and South of Courtyard receives an average of 830 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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