Priory Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. Steps.
Priory Steps
- WRENN ID
- ancient-wicket-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1974
- Type
- Steps
- Address
- Priory Steps, 2 and 3, Newtown, Bradford-On-Avon
- OS grid reference
- ST 824 610
- Coordinates
- 51.34805, -2.25359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory Steps, located in Newtown, is a building from the 17th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble with a stone-tiled roof and features three coped gables with saddle stones. The building is two stories high and has three windows, which include sashes and stone-mullioned casements. The door openings are square-headed and chamfered in stone. There is a weathered string at floor level. Priory Lodge, its boundary walls, the Priory Barn, and Nos 1A to 3 (consecutive) form a group with this building.
Local climate
Priory Steps receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
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