Entrance Wall and Gate Piers to East of Yannon Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1983. A Nineteenth Century Wall and gate piers.
Entrance Wall and Gate Piers to East of Yannon Towers
- WRENN ID
- lesser-shingle-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1983
- Type
- Wall and gate piers
- Period
- Nineteenth Century
- Address
- Entrance Wall and Gate Piers to East of Yannon Towers, Exeter Road, Teignmouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 936 735
- Coordinates
- 50.5519, -3.50265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance wall and gate piers to the east of Yannon Towers were built in 1851 and are made of granite. The flanking walls are approximately 3 meters high and curve forward for about 8 meters, ending in square-section piers that have stepped pyramidal caps and pintles where former gates were located. In the center of each flanking wall, there are blocked openings featuring chamfered voussoirs that form flat arches. It is noted that the right-hand gate pier is leaning at an angle.
Local climate
Entrance Wall and Gate Piers to East of Yannon Towers receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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