Three Gate Piers at Entrance Monkton House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Gate piers. 1 related planning application.
Three Gate Piers at Entrance Monkton House
- WRENN ID
- fossil-bailey-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1978
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Three Gate Piers at Entrance Monkton House, Monkton Hill, Chippenham, SN15 1ER
- OS grid reference
- ST 920 735
- Coordinates
- 51.46082, -2.11592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The three gate piers at the entrance to Monkton House, located at Sadler's Mead, date from the mid-18th century. They are constructed from limestone ashlar and have a massive rectangular plan, standing approximately 3 meters high. The piers feature chamfered rustication and moulded cornices topped with flat blocks.
Local climate
Three Gate Piers at Entrance Monkton House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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