The Stocks is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Stocks.
The Stocks
- WRENN ID
- tangled-arch-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham MP: Nigel Huddleston (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Stocks
- Address
- The Stocks, Merstow Green, Evesham
- OS grid reference
- SP 035 436
- Coordinates
- 52.09143, -1.94898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stocks is a set of medieval wooden stocks that used to be located in the Market Place. They are now covered by a modern canopy with Cotswold tiles and surrounded by iron railings. The Stocks are part of a group that includes Nos 53 and 54, which incorporate the remains of Abbey Gate, the gate and railings of No 53, the remains of Abbey Stables, the Almonry, and Nos 4 and 5 Abbey Gate. This group also features the remains of the south wall of the Abbey Precinct, Little Abbey Lane, and is associated with the Church of All Saints, the Church of St Lawrence, the Bell Tower, Abbot Reginald's Wall, the Porter's Lodge, the remains of the west wall of the North Transept of the Abbey, the archway to the south of the remains of the west wall of the North Transept of the Abbey, Abbot Reginald's Gateway, the Old Vicarage, the Public Library, Nos 6 and 6A, Nos 7 and 8, and Walker Hall in the Market Place.
Local climate
The Stocks receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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