Gatepiers at Weir Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Gatepiers. 1 related planning application.
Gatepiers at Weir Lodge
- WRENN ID
- first-ember-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Gatepiers
- Address
- Gatepiers at Weir Lodge, Staplegrove Road, Taunton, TA1 1DN
- OS grid reference
- ST 221 250
- Coordinates
- 51.01988, -3.11185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two painted stone gatepiers, likely dating from the early 19th century, situated on Staplegrove Road, flanking the path leading to Weir Lodge. They are characterised by banded rustication. The gatepiers are topped with entablatures supporting eagles whose heads are turned inwards. A wrought-iron gate is present, featuring curved crossbars and spear uprights. The gatepiers, along with Weir House, Weir Lodge, numbers 86 to 90 (even) Staplegrove Road, the Summerhouse at Language Centre, The Cottage, and Swiss Cottage in Linden Grove, form a group of buildings of group value.
Local climate
Gatepiers at Weir Lodge receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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