Gate Pillars, Foyle & Londonderry College, Duncreggan Road, Londonderry, BT48 0AA is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Derry City and Strabane local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 8 June 1987.
Gate Pillars, Foyle & Londonderry College, Duncreggan Road, Londonderry, BT48 0AA
- WRENN ID
- third-roof-spring
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Derry City and Strabane
- Constituency
- Foyle MP: Colum Eastwood (SDLP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1987
- Address
- Gate Pillars, Foyle & Londonderry College, Duncreggan Road, Londonderry, BT48 0AA, BT48 0AA
- Irish grid reference
- C 432 181
- Coordinates
- 55.00874, -7.32542
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
A pair of neo-classical style sandstone gate pillars, constructed between 1860 and 1879, stand within the grounds of Foyle & Londonderry College on Duncreggan Road, Londonderry. Designed by John Guy Ferguson, they originally served as the entrance to Tillie’s residence. Following the conversion of the house into a school and subsequent road widening on the Northland Road, a new entrance was created further down Duncreggan Road. The original gates and avenue have been removed, leaving the pillars set back from the footwalk. They are rectangular in cross-section, with elongated panels on each face. Each panel features a low plinth with a cyma reversa moulding, a fillet necking with two corbels supporting a wider cornice, and an octagonal block with a chamfered top edge. The pillars are currently damaged, with dislodged bed joints and chipped stones. Contemporary gates now occupy the position of the former gates. These pillars are now used as gates/screens/lodges and are owned by the school. They were delisted on February 1, 2005 and are not considered to be a special example of their type.
Local climate
Gate Pillars, Foyle & Londonderry College, Duncreggan Road, Londonderry, BT48 0AA sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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 0.2°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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