Gatepiers at Towerhead House is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1984. Gatepiers.
Gatepiers at Towerhead House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-lime-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1984
- Type
- Gatepiers
- Address
- Gatepiers at Towerhead House, Banwell
- OS grid reference
- ST 411 594
- Coordinates
- 51.33117, -2.84575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers at Towerhead House date from the late 17th century to the early 18th century and are constructed of ashlar stone. They consist of two square piers set on low moulded plinths, topped with a moulded cornice. Each pier is surmounted by a very large ball finial that rests on a moulded and chamfered base.
Local climate
Gatepiers at Towerhead House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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