Gate Piers and Boundary Walls to Number 708 Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1997. A Early C19 Gate piers and boundary walls.
Gate Piers and Boundary Walls to Number 708 Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-belfry-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1997
- Type
- Gate piers and boundary walls
- Address
- Gate Piers and Boundary Walls to Number 708 Yew Tree Cottage, Dorchester Road, Weymouth, DT3 5LA
- OS grid reference
- SY 670 846
- Coordinates
- 50.66055, -2.46808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and boundary walls to Number 708 Yew Tree Cottage are early 19th-century structures located on the east side of Dorchester Road in Upwey, Weymouth. The gate piers are made of dressed limestone and are accompanied by squared rubble walls. Each pier measures approximately 0.45 meters square and features banded dressed stone, with alternating courses that are rock-faced. The square cappings of the piers have a moulded edge above a cut-down frieze that incorporates remains of triglyphs, topped with ball finials on shaped bases. The piers stand about 1.7 meters high and are spaced approximately 2 meters apart, with a later wooden barred gate between them. On either side of the gate, there is a short quadrant of wall that reaches about 1.5 meters in height, constructed from coursed rubble and topped with on-edge copings, extending to the rear edge of the pavement.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Boundary Walls to Number 708 Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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