Cemetery Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1985. Gates. 1 related planning application.
Cemetery Gates
- WRENN ID
- stranded-cloister-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1985
- Type
- Gates
- Address
- Cemetery Gates, Downs View, Royal Wootton Bassett, SN4 8AD
- OS grid reference
- SU 070 825
- Coordinates
- 51.54182, -1.89983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cemetery gates, dating from around 1880, are made of cast iron and were created by J Smith of Wootton Bassett. They feature an impressive design with a re-entrant curve on plan, openwork box stanchions, and a gate leading to the cemetery lodge.
Local climate
Cemetery Gates receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- 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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