Gate Piers, Gates and Garden Walls to Parkfield is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1993. Gate piers, garden walls.
Gate Piers, Gates and Garden Walls to Parkfield
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-latch-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1993
- Type
- Gate piers, garden walls
- Address
- Gate Piers, Gates and Garden Walls to Parkfield, Lower Polsham Road
- OS grid reference
- SX 892 611
- Coordinates
- 50.44001, -3.56104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers, gates, and garden walls to Parkfield were built in the 1860s or 1870s. They are made of local grey limestone ashlar for the gate piers, with cast- and wrought-iron gates, and local red breccia for the walls. A coped garden wall runs along Lower Polsham Road, featuring ashlar walls with pyramidal-capped piers that flank wrought-iron gates topped with spear-headed finials. The wall continues to enclose the garden south of the house, where the entrance on Esplanade Road has square section piers with moulded cornices and ball finials. This entrance is marked by a pair of late 20th-century mild steel gates that have 19th-century welded-on finials. Historically, these piers were originally located at the entrance to Torbay House in Paignton, which was demolished in 1877.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Gates and Garden Walls to Parkfield receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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