West garden walls with towers at Banwell Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1984. Garden wall.
West garden walls with towers at Banwell Castle
- WRENN ID
- slow-turret-mist
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1984
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- West garden walls with towers at Banwell Castle, Castle Hill, BS29 6NX
- OS grid reference
- ST 401 586
- Coordinates
- 51.32391, -2.86098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The west garden walls with towers at Banwell Castle date from around 1848 and are constructed of rubble and freestone. The walls are embattled and feature a central boarded garden gate set within a flat arch opening. To the south, there is a small square embattled tower that has a plain door and is canted towards the road, with slit windows. To the north, there is a two-storey square embattled tower that includes a corbelled circular corner turret. This tower has a pointed pedestrian door facing north and a large flat arch opening to the south. The northern tower adjoins the gatehouse flanking wall.
Local climate
West garden walls with towers at Banwell Castle receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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