Blind House on Bridge Lock Up 30 Yards West of the Catherine Wheel is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1958. Lock-up.
Blind House on Bridge Lock Up 30 Yards West of the Catherine Wheel
- WRENN ID
- veiled-storey-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1958
- Type
- Lock-up
- OS grid reference
- SU 068 438
- Coordinates
- 51.19406, -1.90397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The blind house, also known as a lock-up, dates from around 1700 and is located on Maddington Street in Shrewton, approximately 30 yards west of The Catherine Wheel. It features dressed limestone walls and a domed stone roof topped with a ball finial. The structure has a round plan and is a single storey, with one narrow planked and studded door and two loop-holes, one on either side at the rear. A plat band runs at the eaves level. The building is not in its original position, as it was moved and reconstructed after 1945. It is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument in Wiltshire, number 253.
Local climate
Blind House on Bridge Lock Up 30 Yards West of the Catherine Wheel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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