Gatepiers and Walls Along Street at King's College is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Gatepiers, walls. 4 related planning applications.
Gatepiers and Walls Along Street at King's College
- WRENN ID
- winter-mantel-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Gatepiers, walls
- Address
- Gatepiers and Walls Along Street at King's College, South Road, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 234 239
- Coordinates
- 51.00942, -3.09243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers and walls along the street at King's College were built around the same time as the main school buildings, between 1867 and 1869. There is a pair of tall gatepiers at the main north entrance to the school grounds, constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings. The gatepiers feature steeply pitched tops with a finial motif and recessed cusped details on the triangular outer faces. Decorative shafts rise through a stringcourse at the corners of the main piers. The wall extends out to the left and right from each gatepier, standing approximately 2 feet high with taller divisions at regular intervals. The wall is made of sandstone rubble topped with ashlar cappings. King's College, along with the gatepiers and walls, forms a cohesive group.
Local climate
Gatepiers and Walls Along Street at King's College 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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