Walls Encircling Top of Castle Mound is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Walls.
Walls Encircling Top of Castle Mound
- WRENN ID
- solemn-merlon-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Walls
- Address
- Walls Encircling Top of Castle Mound, Devizes
- OS grid reference
- SU 002 612
- Coordinates
- 51.35063, -1.99846
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls encircling the top of Castle Mound date back to 1042. These extensive rock-faced walls are partly crenellated and surround both the castle mound and a sunken garden. They feature several Norman arched gateways, which are topped with gables that have pierced openings.
Local climate
Walls Encircling Top of Castle Mound receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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