Gate Piers and Walls to Courtyard to North of the Old Ship Aground is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Gate piers and walls.

Gate Piers and Walls to Courtyard to North of the Old Ship Aground

WRENN ID
stubborn-hall-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Type
Gate piers and walls
Address
Gate Piers and Walls to Courtyard to North of the Old Ship Aground, the Quay, Minehead
OS grid reference
SS 970 471
Coordinates
51.21384, -3.47489
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gate piers and walls to the courtyard north of The Old Ship Aground in Minehead date from the early 18th century, with the walls likely added in the 19th century. The gate piers are made of painted ashlar and feature capping on the wall, while the walls themselves are constructed from rubblestone. The piers, which support double gates, have plinths, string courses, elaborate cornices, and swept caps topped with ball finials that include central dentilled bands. The 19th-century rubblestone walls extend 3 meters to the left, where they are lowered in the center and fitted with railings, and 10 meters to the right, featuring three panels of railings with chamfered capping.

Local climate

Gate Piers and Walls to Courtyard to North of the Old Ship Aground 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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