Turnstile at West End of High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1993. Turnstile.
Turnstile at West End of High Street
- WRENN ID
- empty-roof-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1993
- Type
- Turnstile
- Address
- Turnstile at West End of High Street, Chard Town, TA20 1QT
- OS grid reference
- ST 317 085
- Coordinates
- 50.87247, -2.97183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The turnstile at the west end of High Street in Chard is a late 19th-century ornamental wrought-iron structure. It features a rotating circular base and is designed with four pairs of vertical serpentine bars. These bars are attached to scrolls at the ends of iron crosses, with the arms of the top cross inclined downwards and those of the bottom cross inclined upwards.
Local climate
Turnstile at West End of High Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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