Gate Piers, Walls and Attached Building to Devonport High School for Boys is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Gate-piers, wall, attached building. 3 related planning applications.
Gate Piers, Walls and Attached Building to Devonport High School for Boys
- WRENN ID
- brooding-doorway-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1998
- Type
- Gate-piers, wall, attached building
- Address
- Gate Piers, Walls and Attached Building to Devonport High School for Boys, Paradise Road, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 462 549
- Coordinates
- 50.37428, -4.16346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These late 18th-century gate piers, walls, and an attached building form part of the boundary to Devonport High School for Boys. The walls are constructed of Plymouth limestone rubble with granite ashlar gate piers. A semi-circular gateway was designed to allow carriages to turn. 19th-century iron gates are present. The walls run along the north road frontage before turning northeastward for approximately 50 metres, then westward, and finally curving northeastward for about 70 metres towards what was formerly a creek. A 19th-century outbuilding is attached to the south side of the road-frontage wall. This building is constructed of Plymouth limestone, with a hipped slate roof and a hip-roofed central dormer. The single-story front has three windows with small, high-set openings, a wide doorway to the left with a planked door, all set within dressed stone surrounds. The interior of the outbuilding has not been inspected.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Walls and Attached Building to Devonport High School for Boys sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 91% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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