Gate-Piers, Wall and Doorway About 10m East of Venn House is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Gate-piers and wall.

Gate-Piers, Wall and Doorway About 10m East of Venn House

WRENN ID
gaunt-parapet-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1987
Type
Gate-piers and wall
Address
Gate-Piers, Wall and Doorway About 10m East of Venn House, Lamerton
OS grid reference
SX 452 761
Coordinates
50.56466, -4.18674
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gate-piers, wall, and doorway located about 10 meters east of Venn House date from the early 19th century, possibly incorporating an earlier doorway from the original Venn House, which dates to the early 17th century. The structure features granite piers and a doorway, along with a wall made of a mix of granite and slatestone rubble. There are a pair of square granite piers, each about 2 meters high, with shaped tops and large acorn finials. These flanking piers are connected by a wall that sweeps around to the left and right, measuring approximately 3 meters long and 1.5 meters high, topped with coping made of mixed squared rubble. At the time of the survey in July 1985, two similar terminal piers were completely overgrown with ivy. The wall extends about 75 meters to the northwest and features a granite doorway with a roll-moulded, four-centred arch, carved spandrels, a pediment, and a finial, which were also overgrown with ivy. The doorway includes a 19th-century studded door with strap hinges.

Local climate

Gate-Piers, Wall and Doorway About 10m East of Venn House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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