Abbey Ruins is a Grade I listed building in the Warwick local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1949. A C12 Abbey. 1 related planning application.
Abbey Ruins
- WRENN ID
- high-slate-thyme
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Warwick
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1949
- Type
- Abbey
- Address
- Abbey Ruins, Abbey Fields, Kenilworth
- OS grid reference
- SP 284 723
- Coordinates
- 52.34866, -1.58342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Abbey Ruins, founded around 1122 for Augustinians, include a ruinous 14th-century sandstone gatehouse. This gatehouse features early English and decorated styles, along with a detached porter’s lodge that is two storeys high. The gabled attic has been filled in with later timber-frame and brick. The structure includes two trefoil-headed two-light mullions and has a well-preserved circular dial incised on the south wall. The excavated foundations of the church and apsidal chapter-house are minimal. The site is scheduled as an ancient monument.
Local climate
Abbey Ruins receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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