Walls, Gates and Gate Piers Enclosing the Forecourt of Ashwicke Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. Enclosing walls.

Walls, Gates and Gate Piers Enclosing the Forecourt of Ashwicke Hall

WRENN ID
tangled-sandstone-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1983
Type
Enclosing walls
Address
Walls, Gates and Gate Piers Enclosing the Forecourt of Ashwicke Hall, Marshfield
OS grid reference
ST 792 717
Coordinates
51.44446, -2.30061
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls, gates, and gate piers enclosing the forecourt of Ashwicke Hall date from around 1857 to 1860. They consist of low coursed rubble walls with ashlar piers at intervals and ashlar coping, topped with a balustraded parapet. The central square ashlar gate piers feature a cornice and a ball finial on a pedestal. There are central wrought iron gates. The return walls to the north and south curve upwards, extending four times for approximately 100 yards to the south and once for about 15 yards.

Local climate

Walls, Gates and Gate Piers Enclosing the Forecourt of Ashwicke Hall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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