Gate Piers at Entrance to Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Gate piers. 2 related planning applications.
Gate Piers at Entrance to Rock House
- WRENN ID
- calm-quoin-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Gate Piers at Entrance to Rock House, Rock House Lane, TQ1 4SU
- OS grid reference
- SX 923 679
- Coordinates
- 50.50164, -3.51982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a pair of gate piers, dating to circa 1850, at the entrance to Rock House. The piers are made of plaster and are rusticated, with embattled tops. They sit on plinths and have projecting cornices below the battlementing. The outer piers and the linking walls have coped merlons and embrasures to the battlementing; the inner piers' battlementing has been repaired in a simpler style. The piers are listed for their group value with Rock House, which features an embattled parapet.
Local climate
Gate Piers at Entrance to Rock House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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