Lych Gate with Steps and Attached Churchyard Wall on 4 Sides of Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. A 18th century Lychgate, churchyard wall.
Lych Gate with Steps and Attached Churchyard Wall on 4 Sides of Yard
- WRENN ID
- dusk-entrance-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- Lychgate, churchyard wall
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- Lych Gate with Steps and Attached Churchyard Wall on 4 Sides of Yard, Church Street, Puncknowle
- OS grid reference
- SY 534 886
- Coordinates
- 50.69573, -2.65988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate with steps and attached churchyard wall dates from the 18th century and is located on the south side of Church Street in Puncknowle. The lych gate features rubble-stone side walls and a hipped stone slab roof, with rough stone benches inside. There are seven stone steps leading up to the lych gate. The north side of the churchyard has a rubble-stone wall approximately 4 feet high, which supports the churchyard and extends for 30 metres. The wall continues for 20 metres along the east side of the yard and then for 27 metres along the south side. There is a gateway with a 4-centred head that provides access to the Manor House, and the wall abuts the corner of the manor house. The west wall, also made of rubble-stone, runs for 23 metres back to the lych gate.
Local climate
Lych Gate with Steps and Attached Churchyard Wall on 4 Sides of Yard receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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