Forecourt and Terrace Retaining Walls Gates and Gate Piers to East, South and West of Acton Reynald School is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1986. A Victorian School entrance.

Forecourt and Terrace Retaining Walls Gates and Gate Piers to East, South and West of Acton Reynald School

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 October 1986
Type
School entrance
Period
Victorian
Address
Forecourt and Terrace Retaining Walls Gates and Gate Piers to East, South and West of Acton Reynald School, Moreton Corbet and Lee Brockhurst
OS grid reference
SJ 535 231
Coordinates
52.80433, -2.69117
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The forecourt and terrace retaining walls, gates, and gate piers located to the east, south, and west of Acton Reynald School were built around 1840. They are constructed from grey sandstone ashlar and form a U-shape, approximately 420 meters long. The walls feature a battered base, a chamfered string course, and chamfered coping, which ramps and steps up to the piers.

To the south, there are a pair of chamfered-rusticated square corner piers topped with moulded caps and large vase finials that have carved fruit drops. The gateways, positioned axially to the east, south, and west, consist of octagonal gate piers with tall, deeply-recessed panels, moulded caps, and carved finials. Each gateway has pairs of wrought-iron gates adorned with dog bars, dog rails, scrolled panels, and scrolled cresting.

The entrance to the forecourt, which adjoins the stable block to the north, features two square gate piers with moulded bases, raised and fielded panels, a moulded cornice, and ovoid finials, along with two boarded gates. The northeast corner pier is topped with a globe finial.

There are low terrace retaining walls immediately to the south and east of the house, as well as a short separate section to the west. These walls have plain coping that ramps up to the corners and leads to a short flight of steps. Large fleurs-de-lys ornaments flank the tops of the steps to the south and are also found on the coping to the east.

Local climate

Forecourt and Terrace Retaining Walls Gates and Gate Piers to East, South and West of Acton Reynald School receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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