Gateway and Flight of Steps at Roadside Entrance to Great House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. Gateway and steps.
Gateway and Flight of Steps at Roadside Entrance to Great House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- Gateway and steps
- Address
- Gateway and Flight of Steps at Roadside Entrance to Great House Farmhouse, Brook Street, North Petherton
- OS grid reference
- ST 295 309
- Coordinates
- 51.07375, -3.00728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This gateway and flight of steps, dating from the 18th century, serves as the roadside entrance to Great House Farmhouse. It features a pair of tall brick gate piers topped with dressed stone caps and terracotta urns that have ball finials. The structure includes a flight of 10 stone steps and is flanked by coursed and squared rubble walls. This gateway is an important feature along the roadside.
Local climate
Gateway and Flight of Steps at Roadside Entrance to Great House Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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