Retaining Wall and Steps,15 Yards South of Leyhill is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1984. Retaining wall.
Retaining Wall and Steps,15 Yards South of Leyhill
- WRENN ID
- pitched-postern-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1984
- Type
- Retaining wall
- OS grid reference
- ST 693 924
- Coordinates
- 51.63024, -2.44463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a retaining wall and steps located 15 yards south of Leyhill, constructed around 1850 by S.S. Teulon. The retaining wall is made of coursed rubble and stands approximately 6 feet high, featuring ashlar saddleback coping. It includes buttresses at intervals, with squat ashlar uprights that support ball finials. There is a flight of 9 steps with flanking walls at either end, extending the full length of the terrace immediately south of Leyhill. At the eastern end, the wall features a pierced quatrefoil parapet as it returns northwards to the gatehouse wall.
Local climate
Retaining Wall and Steps,15 Yards South of Leyhill receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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