Gate Piers and Flanking Walls to the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Gate piers, wall.
Gate Piers and Flanking Walls to the Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- calm-wattle-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Gate piers, wall
- Address
- Gate Piers and Flanking Walls to the Old Rectory, Gay Street, Mells
- OS grid reference
- ST 726 491
- Coordinates
- 51.24122, -2.3937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and flanking walls to the Old Rectory date from around 1800 and are made of rusticated Doulting ashlar. They feature moulded pyramidal cappings. The Doulting rubble wall is 2 metres high with flat coping and extends 20 metres to the south, incorporating a door opening framed in a Gibbs surround, which contains a 19th-century three-panelled door. There is an additional section of rubble wall, also 2 metres high with coping, extending 140 metres to the north. These structures have group value with The Old Rectory.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Flanking Walls to the Old Rectory receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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