Garden Wall, Piers and Gates to Spalden's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1974. Almshouse.

Garden Wall, Piers and Gates to Spalden's Almshouses

WRENN ID
carved-pewter-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Derbyshire Dales
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 February 1974
Type
Almshouse
Address
Garden Wall, Piers and Gates to Spalden's Almshouses, School Lane, Ashbourne
OS grid reference
SK 177 463
Coordinates
53.01456, -1.73745
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden wall, piers, and gates to Spalden's Almshouses date from the 18th century. The structure features a red brick wall topped with stone coping. It includes brick piers that have stone caps and contemporary iron gates. On the north side, there are capped stone pillars, but no gates are present. This building is part of a group with No 69 Church Street and the School Lane section of the churchyard walls surrounding the parish church of St Oswald.

Local climate

Garden Wall, Piers and Gates to Spalden's Almshouses receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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