Wall to East of Former Abbey Vineyard is a Grade I listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Wall.

Wall to East of Former Abbey Vineyard

WRENN ID
tenth-chalk-elder
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1952
Type
Wall
Address
Wall to East of Former Abbey Vineyard, Abbey Precincts, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 859 642
Coordinates
52.24496, 0.72291
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The wall to the east of the former Abbey vineyard in Bury St Edmunds is a significant structure from the 18th and 19th centuries. This replacement wall primarily consists of kidney flint and features flat red brick pilasters that create bays at the southern end, topped with a red brick coping. In the central section, the flint is not mixed with brick, but the wall is supported by buttresses on the inner side, where the ground slopes down. At the northern end, there is a taller section from the 18th century, where the flint is separated by flat pilasters made from reused stone blocks, and this part includes a mixture of similar blocks along with a 20th-century replacement coping.

Local climate

Wall to East of Former Abbey Vineyard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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