East Cloister Wall is a Grade I listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. A C15 Cloister wall.
East Cloister Wall
- WRENN ID
- stranded-granite-briar
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Cloister wall
- Address
- East Cloister Wall, Kewstoke
- OS grid reference
- ST 343 661
- Coordinates
- 51.39061, -2.9449
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The east cloister wall at Woodspring Priory is a Grade I listed structure dating from the 15th century. It is constructed of rubble and stands 4 metres high. The wall features buttresses with weathered capping on the west side and inset gargoyles. At the eastern end, there are corbels that supported the roof members of the cloister. The south end includes the remains of a circular stair turret with a moulded arched doorway. At the north end, there is a doorway with a four-centred head and a double ogee surround that has large stops, along with a later porch featuring an outer chamfered doorway.
Local climate
East Cloister Wall 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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