Entrance Gates and Turnstiles is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1983. Gates. 1 related planning application.

Entrance Gates and Turnstiles

WRENN ID
salt-cellar-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1983
Type
Gates
Address
Entrance Gates and Turnstiles, Birnbeck Pier, Weston-Super-Mare
OS grid reference
ST 308 624
Coordinates
51.35646, -2.99449
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance gates and turnstiles at Birnbeck Pier date from the 1860s and are located at the landward end of the main pier. They feature two cast-iron gatepiers with moulded capitals and floral lamp bases. There are two pairs of cast-iron turnstiles flanking the gates, with one set attached to the original Toll House Lodge on the left and the other to an altered house on the right. A section of floral railing is attached to the right pier.

Local climate

Entrance Gates and Turnstiles receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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