Old Gun Wharf Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 December 2015. Wall.
Old Gun Wharf Wall
- WRENN ID
- low-window-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 December 2015
- Type
- Wall
- OS grid reference
- SX 459 539
- Coordinates
- 50.36551, -4.16773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Gun Wharf Wall is an 18th-century structure located at the southern end of the 18th-century Devonport Dock Lines. It features scarp walls that have undergone modifications and some rebuilding in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Constructed from roughly-coursed irregular blocks of Plymouth Limestone, the wall measures approximately 68 meters in length and runs north to south, with a projecting bastion at the southern end. The wall stands around 3 meters high, although the north end is largely hidden by vegetation.
The top of the wall has concrete capping, and above it is a metal security fence, both of which are not considered to have special architectural or historic interest. The south-east corner of the bastion appears to have been rebuilt, and the center of the north-east face of the bastion was also rebuilt around the early 20th century. Much of this rebuilt section has been repaired and re-pointed at the south-east corner in the 21st century.
Local climate
Old Gun Wharf Wall 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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