Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall to Woodlands Farmhouse on Frontage with Mounting Block is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Gate piers and wall.
Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall to Woodlands Farmhouse on Frontage with Mounting Block
- WRENN ID
- endless-rotunda-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Gate piers and wall
- Address
- Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall to Woodlands Farmhouse on Frontage with Mounting Block, Woodlands Lane, Isle Abbotts
- OS grid reference
- ST 344 198
- Coordinates
- 50.97388, -2.93507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and forecourt wall at Woodlands Farmhouse date from the 17th century and are constructed from dressed Ham stone and coursed squared lias. The lias wall is approximately one metre high and features a cambered and featheredge Ham stone coping. The gateway includes square Ham stone piers that have moulded caps and ball finials set on plinths. There is a simple 19th-century wrought-iron gate with spear capping. Additionally, there is a three-stage mounting block located at the roadside.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall to Woodlands Farmhouse on Frontage with Mounting Block receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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