Entrance Gateway About 50 Metres East of Wheathill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Entrance gateway.
Entrance Gateway About 50 Metres East of Wheathill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- keen-gallery-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- Entrance gateway
- OS grid reference
- ST 582 308
- Coordinates
- 51.07505, -2.59763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance gateway located about 50 meters east of Wheathill Farmhouse is likely from the 18th century. It features Doulting stone piers and wrought iron gates. The piers are square in shape with moulded plinths and rusticated ashlar surfaces topped with moulded bell-hip pyramidal caps. The gates, which may date from the 20th century, have square rod rails with collared arrow points and curved sweeps on the top rails. This gateway has group value with Wheathill Farmhouse and enhances the setting of the farmhouse.
Local climate
Entrance Gateway About 50 Metres East of Wheathill Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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