Part of Boundary Wall at Hm Prison, Namely Approximately 130 Metres of North East Facing Wall Fronting Sandford Road, and Approximately 50 and 40 Metres of North West Facing Wall Fronting Springfield Road is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Wall. 1 related planning application.
Part of Boundary Wall at Hm Prison, Namely Approximately 130 Metres of North East Facing Wall Fronting Sandford Road, and Approximately 50 and 40 Metres of North West Facing Wall Fronting Springfield Road
- WRENN ID
- hidden-courtyard-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Part of Boundary Wall at Hm Prison, Namely Approximately 130 Metres of North East Facing Wall Fronting Sandford Road, and Approximately 50 and 40 Metres of North West Facing Wall Fronting Springfield Road, CM2 6LQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 716 071
- Coordinates
- 51.73652, 0.48436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary wall at HM Prison was built between 1823 and 1826 and includes approximately 130 metres of wall facing northeast along Sandford Road, as well as sections of approximately 50 and 40 metres facing northwest along Springfield Road. The wall features seven stone buttresses with hollow chamfers on either side of the entrance and a stone corbel table top course. Both the northeast and northwest returns have bastions. The entire wall is stone faced, with rustications and blind, round-headed niches on each side, which have voussoired heads. There are pilasters on each return with 'arrow-slits', topped with a stone string and parapet. The northeast facing section is made of red brick in Flemish garden wall bond, featuring 18 semi-circular buttresses, each with a conical top, and a conical section to the brick coping. The wall was designed by Thomas Hopper.
Local climate
Part of Boundary Wall at Hm Prison, Namely Approximately 130 Metres of North East Facing Wall Fronting Sandford Road, and Approximately 50 and 40 Metres of North West Facing Wall Fronting Springfield Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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