Boundary Wall to the east of the former GWR Carriage Works is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 2000. Boundary wall.
Boundary Wall to the east of the former GWR Carriage Works
- WRENN ID
- eternal-brass-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 2000
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Boundary Wall to the east of the former GWR Carriage Works, SN1 5DE
- OS grid reference
- SU 147 850
- Coordinates
- 51.56374, -1.78895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary wall to the east of the former Great Western Railway Carriage Works was built in the early 1870s by the Great Western Railway. It is constructed from rock-faced snecked Foxwood rubble with Bath stone dressings.
The wall runs approximately 100 meters long, oriented from south-west to north-east, and stands parallel to the south-east of the main railway line. Originally connected to No 8 shop to the west, it has been slightly truncated and now stands detached, with higher ground on the north-west side. At the eastern end, there is a gateway that once provided access to the canal.
The wall reaches about 5 meters in height on the outside and 3 meters on the inside of the former works site. The lower section features continuous, uninterrupted masonry, while the upper part includes a series of inset rectangular panels with quoined jambs, a continuous string course beneath, and chamfered lintels above. The top of the wall is finished with ashlar coping stones. At the eastern end, there are two pairs of piers that frame the course of the former canal.
Local climate
Boundary Wall to the east of the former GWR Carriage Works receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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