Range of Garden Walls and Piers and Steps About 5 Metres East of Hamswell House is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1985. Garden wall, pier, steps.
Range of Garden Walls and Piers and Steps About 5 Metres East of Hamswell House
- WRENN ID
- second-minaret-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1985
- Type
- Garden wall, pier, steps
- OS grid reference
- ST 732 714
- Coordinates
- 51.44172, -2.38685
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a range of garden walls, piers, and steps dating from the 18th century, located about 5 metres east of Hamswell House. The walls define the layout of the formal gardens and are constructed from limestone rubble, freestone, and ashlar.
The ashlar wall features a coping along the terrace and includes central steps made of freestone, which have wreathed ends at the walls and coping. The walls slope down to the north and south and have segmental-headed openings with a keystone and cornice, while the outer sides feature square-headed openings. Below the terrace level, the walls are made of rubble and have coping, with ashlar pilasters at intervals, reaching about 3 metres in height.
To the east, there are two semi-circular ashlar recesses with a cornice, each containing a rectangular unglazed window opening. Adjacent to these are steps leading to a lower terrace, each flanked by a pair of square piers that have raised panels and flat tops with a moulded edge at both the top and bottom. The piers and steps to the north are skewed, with a moulded top string on the steps.
Local climate
Range of Garden Walls and Piers and Steps About 5 Metres East of Hamswell House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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