Gate Piers, Gates and Railings to Front of Avon House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. A Early C19 Gate piers and railings.
Gate Piers, Gates and Railings to Front of Avon House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-turret-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 and railings
- Address
- Gate Piers, Gates and Railings to Front of Avon House, Bath Road, Melksham
- OS grid reference
- ST 903 642
- Coordinates
- 51.37699, -2.1403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers, gates, and attached dwarf walls and railings at the front of Avon House date from the early 19th century. They are made of limestone ashlar for the gate piers and dwarf walls, with cast-iron gates and spear-headed railings. The gate piers feature recessed panels on each side, a key pattern frieze, and weathered arched tops. The cast-iron gates also have spear-heads and a key pattern. The dwarf walls have weathered coping and spear-headed railings, with a similar gate in the railings to the right. The walls and railings extend approximately 6 meters to the left of the main gates and continue to the right of the main gates, returning to the right side of Avon House.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Gates and Railings to Front of Avon House 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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