Wall Piers and Steps Approximately 300 Metres Long Parallel with Spinnning House is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1999. Industrial.
Wall Piers and Steps Approximately 300 Metres Long Parallel with Spinnning House
- WRENN ID
- tired-lantern-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1999
- Type
- Industrial
- OS grid reference
- SX 451 543
- Coordinates
- 50.36847, -4.17866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall, piers, and steps are approximately 300 metres long and run parallel to the Spinning House, built between 1763 and 1771. The structure is made of rubble with ashlar piers. It features a capped retaining wall that leads to a cobbled roadway, which ramps up to the northern square pier. There is an archway underneath the ramp, with a central path that connects to the archway in the Tarring and Wheel House. This wall serves as a retaining wall for the roadway on the eastern side of the Spinning House and is included for its group value as part of an outstanding 18th-century industrial complex.
Local climate
Wall Piers and Steps Approximately 300 Metres Long Parallel with Spinnning House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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