Walls and Gate Piers to Right of Ashton House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Boundary wall.
Walls and Gate Piers to Right of Ashton House
- WRENN ID
- waning-pilaster-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Walls and Gate Piers to Right of Ashton House, High Street, Steeple Ashton
- OS grid reference
- ST 906 569
- Coordinates
- 51.31114, -2.13527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The front boundary wall and gate piers to the right of Ashton House are likely from the 18th century and were restored in the 20th century. The walls are made of coursed rubble stone and feature pitched stone coping, rising up over a planked door on the left. The gate piers have chamfered rustication and are topped with moulded cappings that support ball finials with spiral scalloping.
Local climate
Walls and Gate Piers to Right of Ashton House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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