Forecourt Wall Approximately 20 Metres to North-West of Ford House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Forecourt wall.
Forecourt Wall Approximately 20 Metres to North-West of Ford House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-courtyard-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Forecourt wall
- OS grid reference
- SJ 412 138
- Coordinates
- 52.71946, -2.87127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The forecourt wall, located approximately 20 metres to the north-west of Ford House, dates from the early 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a chamfered red sandstone coping. The wall is about 30 metres long and stands one metre high. It ramps up to square piers at each end, with the northern pier topped by a pyramidal sandstone cap and the southern pier featuring a concave stone cap, which may have originally had a globe finial. This wall is part of a longer stretch of 18th-century wall that surrounds the grounds of Ford House, including a short section connected to the stable block to the north and a larger section of garden wall to the south and east.
Local climate
Forecourt Wall Approximately 20 Metres to North-West of Ford House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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