Boundary Wall to Swaylands School Along the Penshurst Road and Marlpit Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. A C19 Boundary wall.
Boundary Wall to Swaylands School Along the Penshurst Road and Marlpit Corner
- WRENN ID
- dusk-paling-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Boundary Wall to Swaylands School Along the Penshurst Road and Marlpit Corner, Bidborough
- OS grid reference
- TQ 535 431
- Coordinates
- 51.16664, 0.19428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary wall to Swaylands School, located along the Penshurst Road and Marlpit Corner, dates from the 1880s. It features roughly-dressed sandstone that frames the entrance, while the other sections are constructed of brick with a dentil moulding beneath the coping.
The walls extend along the Penshurst Road and curve around Marlpit Corner to the east, leading to the entrance of the drive to Swaylands School and the stable yard. At the main entrance, the sandstone walls are low and topped with stone coping, which is adorned with iron railings that have a barleysugar top rail supported by standards with wrought iron scrolls. The entrance is marked by squat octagonal gate piers topped with two-tier pyramidal coping. The walls rise to taller brick sections that curve inward at the stable yard entrance to the west, where there is a pair of 19th-century timber gates.
This boundary wall has group value with Swaylands School, which is separately listed in the parish of Penshurst.
Local climate
Boundary Wall to Swaylands School Along the Penshurst Road and Marlpit Corner 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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