Railed Enclosure and Tombs to Wilkes Family is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1983. Enclosure.
Railed Enclosure and Tombs to Wilkes Family
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-slate-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1983
- Type
- Enclosure
- Address
- Railed Enclosure and Tombs to Wilkes Family, the Square, Blockley
- OS grid reference
- SP 164 349
- Coordinates
- 52.01231, -1.76165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railed enclosure and tombs for the Wilkes family, located in Blockley, date from around 1800. The large cast iron enclosure features a pallisade design and includes the tomb of Thomas Wilkes, who died in 1801. Additionally, there are two stone table tombs and a stone chest tomb from the 1720s, which are characterized by their panelled sides and corner balusters.
Local climate
Railed Enclosure and Tombs to Wilkes Family receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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