Bowls Cross Gatepiers (At Sx 963982) is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Gatepier.

Bowls Cross Gatepiers (At Sx 963982)

WRENN ID
sombre-railing-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1985
Type
Gatepier
Address
Bowls Cross Gatepiers (At Sx 963982), Poltimore
OS grid reference
SX 963 980
Coordinates
50.77309, -3.47181
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bowls Cross Gatepiers are two 17th-century granite gatepiers. Each gatepier is upright and square in plan, featuring a chamfered capital with a moulded top, topped by a large ball. These gatepiers resemble those at The Bowles in Broadclyst, which date to 1681, but they do not have any decorative panels. They originally marked the entrance to the Poltimore House estate, although they are not in their original position, as they are now placed wider apart than intended.

Local climate

Bowls Cross Gatepiers (At Sx 963982) receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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