Gate Piers at Entrance to Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1961. Gate piers.
Gate Piers at Entrance to Manor House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-stone-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1961
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Gate Piers at Entrance to Manor House, West Compton Lane, Pilton
- OS grid reference
- ST 595 421
- Coordinates
- 51.17739, -2.58061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers at the entrance to Manor House date from the 17th century and are constructed of ashlar stone. They are square in plan and feature moulded cornices and caps topped with obelisk finials. The entrance is flanked by paired 20th-century wrought-iron gates that include cresting.
Local climate
Gate Piers at Entrance to Manor House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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