Balustrading and Walls to Terraces Rendcomb College is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1988. Balustrade, retaining walls.
Balustrading and Walls to Terraces Rendcomb College
- WRENN ID
- odd-oriel-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1988
- Type
- Balustrade, retaining walls
- OS grid reference
- SP 017 098
- Coordinates
- 51.78717, -1.97659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The balustrading and walls to the terraces at Rendcomb College were built around 1866 and designed by P.C. Hardwick for Sir F.H. Goldsmid. The stone balustrading outlines a rectangular area immediately south of the entrance front. On the north side, the balustrading is set on an ashlar wall approximately 1.5 meters high and is connected to a lower balustrading by a moulded bracket that is decorated with fruit and flowers at the north-east corner, featuring a lion's head above the bracket. There are entrances towards the center of each side of the balustrading, which are flanked by stone urns with gadrooned bases and lions' heads where the handles would be. The urns by the southern entrance have been removed. Two straight ashlar walls retain terraces on the south side, and similar walls support a lower three-sided terrace. Urns are placed at intervals along the terrace retaining walls and at both the top and bottom of the flights of stone steps that connect the terraces.
Local climate
Balustrading and Walls to Terraces Rendcomb College receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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