Pair of Gate Piers with Gates Approximately 5 Metres North West of Number 53 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1976. Gate piers with gates.
Pair of Gate Piers with Gates Approximately 5 Metres North West of Number 53
- WRENN ID
- rusted-lintel-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1976
- Type
- Gate piers with gates
- OS grid reference
- SS 973 447
- Coordinates
- 51.19233, -3.47008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of gate piers with gates located approximately 5 metres north-west of number 53 on Manor Road in Alcombe, built around 1899. The gate piers are tall and square, featuring rusticated stonework, entablatures, and ball finials. The gates are tall, double spiked, and open outward, with each gate hinged at the centre to wrap around the front of the gate pier. These structures are included for their group value with Dunster Lodge, which is not part of this listing.
Local climate
Pair of Gate Piers with Gates Approximately 5 Metres North West of Number 53 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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