Garden Walls, Urns, Steps and Piers About 4 Metres West of Hill Court is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. Garden walls.
Garden Walls, Urns, Steps and Piers About 4 Metres West of Hill Court
- WRENN ID
- calm-paling-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1984
- Type
- Garden walls
- OS grid reference
- ST 649 952
- Coordinates
- 51.65512, -2.5078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls, urns, steps, and piers located about 4 metres west of Hill Court date from the 18th and 19th centuries. They are constructed from limestone rubble with ashlar coping. The low walls extend approximately 130 metres around the garden to the west of Hill Court. There are a total of 25 urns placed on top of the walls, which feature arms representing the marriages of the Fust family. Specifically, there are 5 urns in the south-west section, 7 in the north-east, and 13 in the east. The central steps are flanked by plain piers with shaped tops at both the top and bottom.
Local climate
Garden Walls, Urns, Steps and Piers About 4 Metres West of Hill Court receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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