Retaining Wall in Front of the Square is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. Retaining wall.
Retaining Wall in Front of the Square
- WRENN ID
- fallen-bastion-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Retaining Wall in Front of the Square, Leicester Square, Penshurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 527 438
- Coordinates
- 51.17309, 0.18395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining wall in front of Leicester Square is a 19th-century structure featuring stone steps that lead up from the roadway. It is part of a group that includes Wall Cottage, Nos 1 to 3 (consecutive), the Archway, the Old Guildhouse, and the Post Office.
Local climate
Retaining Wall in Front of the Square 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 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Retaining Wall in Front of Numbers 9 to 17
- 2 Retaining Wall, Railings and Steps in Front of Nos 24 to 30 (Consec)
- 3 Retaining Wall Along Highgate Hill Between Street Pavement and Higher Paved Walk Leading to Numbers 104 to 110 (Even) and the Cottage, and Houses Farther West
- 4 Retaining Wall at East End and Whitehall Stairs
- 5 Retaining Wall and Terrace in Front of Nos 29-33 Odd
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Nearby listed buildings
- Wall Cottage
- Archway Connecting No3 and the Old Guildhouse
- The Old Guildhouse
- Gatehouse and Gateway Leading to Penshurst Place and Also to Well Place
- Wall Running South South East from Gatehouse to River
- Rectory Cottages
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Wall Running South South East from Southern Tip of Penshurst Place and Returning Eastward
- The Leicester Arms Hotel
- The Rectory