Drakes Place Road Frontage Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Wall, railing.
Drakes Place Road Frontage Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- western-truss-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1998
- Type
- Wall, railing
- Address
- Drakes Place Road Frontage Walls and Railings, North Hill, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 481 551
- Coordinates
- 50.37625, -4.13671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The road-frontage walls and railings in front of the reservoir date from the late 19th century, likely around 1891. They are constructed from Plymouth limestone rubble, which is brought to course, and feature dressed limestone chamfered copings. The wrought-iron railings have crocketed finials and are supported by turned cast-iron stanchions that display twist decoration and turned finials. The top of the wall steps up the hill to the right.
Local climate
Drakes Place Road Frontage Walls and Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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