Steps and Dwarf Walls in Gardens to Rear of Trafalgar House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Steps and dwarf walls.
Steps and Dwarf Walls in Gardens to Rear of Trafalgar House
- WRENN ID
- final-passage-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Steps and dwarf walls
- Address
- Steps and Dwarf Walls in Gardens to Rear of Trafalgar House, Standlynch, Downton
- OS grid reference
- SU 185 237
- Coordinates
- 51.01297, -1.73664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The steps and dwarf walls located in the gardens to the rear of Trafalgar House date from the 18th century. They feature two flights of six stone steps leading up to the garden entrance of the house. The accompanying dwarf walls are constructed in Flemish bond brick and topped with moulded stone coping. The walls are finished with urn finials on the piers.
Local climate
Steps and Dwarf Walls in Gardens to Rear of Trafalgar House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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