Old Prison is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1953. Prison.
Old Prison
- WRENN ID
- vast-tin-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1953
- Type
- Prison
- Address
- Old Prison, Wilton Lane, Bridstow
- OS grid reference
- SO 589 242
- Coordinates
- 51.91494, -2.59889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Prison, now part of a public house, is a building that possibly dates back to the early 17th century. It is constructed from square sandstone and features a pantiled roof with a brick stack at one end. The building has two storeys and includes two windows on the ground floor, each with 2-light barred mullions and a blocked opening underneath. On the first floor of the gable end, there is another 2-light barred mullion located to the left of the end stack.
Local climate
Old Prison receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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