Retaining Walls to Terrace, Terminating at the West End in A Raised Square Over A Vaulted Undercroft is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1983. Retaining walls.
Retaining Walls to Terrace, Terminating at the West End in A Raised Square Over A Vaulted Undercroft
- WRENN ID
- tangled-cobble-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1983
- Type
- Retaining walls
- Address
- Retaining Walls to Terrace, Terminating at the West End in A Raised Square Over A Vaulted Undercroft, Sodbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 774 816
- Coordinates
- 51.53296, -2.32579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining walls to the terrace date from probably the mid-19th century and are designed in the style of Renaissance fortifications. They are constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar coping and feature embrasures at wide intervals. At the west end, the walls create a raised square "terreplain" with corner bastions. Beneath this square is a long barrel-vaulted storage chamber, which may have served as an ice-house and is accessible from field level. The terrace itself might have been used as a bowling green.
Local climate
Retaining Walls to Terrace, Terminating at the West End in A Raised Square Over A Vaulted Undercroft receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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