Gate Piers and Walls, About 375 Metres West of Lytes Cary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Gate piers.
Gate Piers and Walls, About 375 Metres West of Lytes Cary
- WRENN ID
- quartered-gutter-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gate piers
- OS grid reference
- ST 529 266
- Coordinates
- 51.03707, -2.67267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of gate piers and walls, located about 375 metres west of Lytes Cary, likely dating from the 18th century. The piers are made of local lias stone that has been cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings. Each pier has a square plan, measuring approximately 600mm wide and 4 metres high. They feature a moulded plinth, a plain shaft, and a deep moulded frieze and cornice with caps that include steps and elaborate fluted urns on top. The plain stone flanking walls have small stone scroll brackets that connect to the piers.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Walls, About 375 Metres West of Lytes Cary receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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