Gate-Piers About 100 Metres South South East of Higher Fuge is a Grade II* listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1991. Gate-piers.
Gate-Piers About 100 Metres South South East of Higher Fuge
- WRENN ID
- lunar-stone-weasel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1991
- Type
- Gate-piers
- OS grid reference
- SX 832 480
- Coordinates
- 50.32084, -3.64155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a pair of gate-piers located about 100 metres south-south-east of Higher Fuge, dating from the 18th century, possibly 1726, which is the date associated with Higher Fuge. The gate-piers are slender and square in shape, featuring dressed slate plinths and rusticated red sandstone shafts. Each shaft has a thin moulded necking and is topped with a moulded limestone cornice cap, which supports a large limestone urn decorated with acanthus and fluted designs.
Local climate
Gate-Piers About 100 Metres South South East of Higher Fuge receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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