Garden Walls and 2 Sets of Gate Piers Attached to and South of the Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1984. Garden walls.
Garden Walls and 2 Sets of Gate Piers Attached to and South of the Manor House
- WRENN ID
- iron-cobble-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1984
- Type
- Garden walls
- OS grid reference
- SY 512 950
- Coordinates
- 50.75338, -2.69307
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls and two sets of gate piers are located to the south of the Manor House and date from the 18th and 19th centuries. The walls are made of rubble stone and feature limestone copings, enclosing the lawn immediately south of the house. There is a pair of rusticated square stone piers that are part of the original design, which include a dentil cornice, pulvinated impost, cornice, and a ball finial on top, dating from the 18th century. Additionally, there is a smaller pair of square stone piers located immediately southeast of the larger piers, which have tapering cornices and ball finials, dating from the 19th century.
Local climate
Garden Walls and 2 Sets of Gate Piers Attached to and South of the Manor House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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