Gate Pier and Forecourt Railings to Essex House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. Gate pier, railings.
Gate Pier and Forecourt Railings to Essex House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-panel-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- Gate pier, railings
- Address
- Gate Pier and Forecourt Railings to Essex House, Fore Street, Chard Town, TA20 1QA
- OS grid reference
- ST 323 086
- Coordinates
- 50.87316, -2.96223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate pier and forecourt railings to Essex House were built in the mid-18th century. They are made of Ham Hill stone and feature a tall, slender design with chamfered rustication on a cube-shaped plinth. The structure includes a plain frieze that is moulded at both the top and bottom, supporting a moulded pyramidal cap topped with a ball finial. The railings are designed with long and short sections that have spearhead ends, and there are urn finials on the supports, which rest on a level stone plinth that ramps up at the base to the left. The gate is functional.
Local climate
Gate Pier and Forecourt Railings to Essex House 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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