Forecourt Retaining Wall Adjoining Pitchford Hall to North East is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. Retaining wall.
Forecourt Retaining Wall Adjoining Pitchford Hall to North East
- WRENN ID
- noble-gallery-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1986
- Type
- Retaining wall
- OS grid reference
- SJ 527 042
- Coordinates
- 52.634, -2.69892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The forecourt retaining wall adjoining Pitchford Hall to the northeast is a Grade II listed structure built in the 1870s and 1880s, likely designed by George Devey. It is constructed from squared and thinly coursed red sandstone and features a wide concave curve that returns to the south. The wall is approximately 32 meters long and stands 3 to 4 meters high. It has seven large buttresses with chamfered tops and a square end pier on the north side. This wall retains the forecourt above the Row Brook to the east and probably dates from the period when Devey was working on Pitchford Hall, coinciding with the relocation of the main entrance from the south to the north. The wall is visually significant to the setting of the house and is included for its group value.
Local climate
Forecourt Retaining Wall Adjoining Pitchford Hall to North East receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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