Retaining Wall About 75 Yards South of Downton Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1987. A C18 Retaining wall.
Retaining Wall About 75 Yards South of Downton Castle
- WRENN ID
- watchful-moat-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1987
- Type
- Retaining wall
- OS grid reference
- SO 445 746
- Coordinates
- 52.36712, -2.81631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a retaining wall built in the late 18th century, located about 75 yards south of Downton Castle. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The wall stands approximately ten feet high and stretches about 300 yards long, featuring pinnacled buttresses with offsets at roughly ten yard intervals along its length. It starts to the north-east of the south terrace wall and follows an arc, with a straight section of 100 yards running south-west at its south-west end. The retaining wall was designed to provide both structural support and aesthetic appeal to the south terrace.
Local climate
Retaining Wall About 75 Yards South of Downton Castle receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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