Dwarf wall, rails, piers, gates and overthrow to road across front of 70 The Close is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1972. A Early C19 Boundary wall.

Dwarf wall, rails, piers, gates and overthrow to road across front of 70 The Close

WRENN ID
half-arch-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 October 1972
Type
Boundary wall
Address
Dwarf wall, rails, piers, gates and overthrow to road across front of 70 The Close, Salisbury, SP1 2EN
OS grid reference
SU 141 293
Coordinates
51.06312, -1.79946
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a dwarf wall, rails, piers, gates, and overthrow located across the front of 70 The Close, dating from the early 19th century. The structure features a dwarf stone wall topped with plain iron rails. It includes panelled stone Gothic gabled gate piers, with side footpath gates and double gates at the center, flanked by square section standards. The cast iron work is notable, with the rails designed as giant arrows, concave top bars, and oval base panels on the double gates. The standards are adorned with scroll work and support a wrought iron ogee arched overthrow, which has a lantern. All the listed buildings in The Close create an impressive group.

Local climate

Dwarf wall, rails, piers, gates and overthrow to road across front of 70 The Close receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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