Westbury College Turret and Boundary Wall is a Grade II* listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. A Medieval Turret, boundary wall. 1 related planning application.
Westbury College Turret and Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- endless-tallow-ivory
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol North West MP: Darren Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Turret, boundary wall
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Westbury College Turret and Boundary Wall, Trym Road, BS9 3EP
- OS grid reference
- ST 572 775
- Coordinates
- 51.49485, -2.61731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The turret and boundary wall date from approximately 1459 to 1469 and were constructed for the Dean and Canons of Westbury Church. The structure is built from red sandstone rubble with limestone ashlar detailing. A round corner turret features a cornice to a conical ashlar roof, which curves upward to a finial. A blocked lancet window faces the river, while the opposite side has a chamfered lancet window and a 19th-century door within a brick arch. A rubble wall extends approximately 30 metres to the west. The turret originally formed the northwest corner of the quadrangular layout of Westbury College, and the wall served as its northern boundary. This is a significant example of a medieval precinct wall with a turret. The wall to the east has since been incorporated into a residential development and is not included within the listing. The interior of the turret has not been inspected.
Local climate
Westbury College Turret and Boundary Wall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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