Gate Piers at Entrance to Place Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. Gate piers.
Gate Piers at Entrance to Place Road
- WRENN ID
- riven-keep-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Gate Piers at Entrance to Place Road, Market Place, Melksham
- OS grid reference
- ST 904 636
- Coordinates
- 51.37208, -2.13854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers at the entrance to Place Road are from the 18th and 19th centuries and are made of limestone. The main piers are rusticated and feature a cornice with ball finials on top. The side piers have carved lozenge decoration on all faces, along with a moulded cornice and a pulvinated frieze. There are no gates present. These gate piers were originally part of the now-demolished Place House and were erected on this site when Place Road was laid out in 1864.
Local climate
Gate Piers at Entrance to Place Road receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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