Gatepiers and Wall Fronting Road, West View is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Gatepiers and wall.
Gatepiers and Wall Fronting Road, West View
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-grate-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Gatepiers and wall
- Address
- Gatepiers and Wall Fronting Road, West View, Minehead Road, Bishop's Lydeard
- OS grid reference
- ST 167 291
- Coordinates
- 51.056, -3.18924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers and wall fronting the road at West View date from the mid-19th century. They are constructed from red brick in Flemish bond, with ashlar limestone and red sandstone random rubble on the right side. The gatepiers stand about 1.5 meters high and are arranged in a central pair opposite the front door of West View, with another pair to the left for a carriage entrance and one to the right. Each gatepier features an intersecting ashlar pediment top, a moulded cornice, a squared brick shaft with ashlar quoins, and a chamfered brick and stone plinth. The wall is approximately one meter high and is set back at an angle on a four-course brick plinth, topped with chamfered limestone coping. It has one merlon to the right and two to the left of the central gatepiers. The wall continues to the left, designed similarly in red sandstone random rubble, which returns as a garden wall with one gatepier at the angle, also in red sandstone random rubble, featuring a moulded cap and plinth. The 20th-century gates are not included in the listing. The wall and gatepiers are well-executed and display a sophisticated design.
Local climate
Gatepiers and Wall Fronting Road, West View receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
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