Gate Piers to Dunsland House on Brandis Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. A C17 Gate piers.
Gate Piers to Dunsland House on Brandis Corner
- WRENN ID
- upper-rampart-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Gate Piers to Dunsland House on Brandis Corner, Holemoor Road, Bradford
- OS grid reference
- SS 415 052
- Coordinates
- 50.82476, -4.25057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers to the now demolished Dunsland House are located on Brandis Corner, Holemoor Road. They date from the late 17th century and are constructed of stone ashlar, which decreases in size towards the top. The piers feature a projecting cornice with a shaped neck that supports large ball finials. Dunsland was a manor recorded in the Domesday Book and was passed to the Arscotts in 1522, then to the Bickfords in 1634. The estate remained with the Bickfords until 1817 when it was transferred to the Cohams and later the Dickinsons. The architect Philip Tilden rescued the property, which became part of the National Trust and was restored, but it was damaged by fire and ultimately demolished in 1967. These gate piers likely date from the late 17th century remodelling of the Tudor house.
Local climate
Gate Piers to Dunsland House on Brandis Corner sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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