Retaining Walls, Garden Walls and Gate Piers to Dunkirk Manor Fronting Road is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1980. Retaining walls and garden walls.
Retaining Walls, Garden Walls and Gate Piers to Dunkirk Manor Fronting Road
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-merlon-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1980
- Type
- Retaining walls and garden walls
- Address
- Retaining Walls, Garden Walls and Gate Piers to Dunkirk Manor Fronting Road, Watledge Road, Nailsworth
- OS grid reference
- SO 846 006
- Coordinates
- 51.70426, -2.22403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining walls, garden walls, and gate piers to Dunkirk Manor, located on Watledge Road in Theescombe, date from around 1800. The structure features a coursed drystone wall that serves as a retaining wall on the north side. It curves around to the west and rises as a garden wall to a height of about 4 feet 6 inches. The wall ramps up again to the gate piers, which have moulded capping and slight scroll-top breaks for hinges.
Local climate
Retaining Walls, Garden Walls and Gate Piers to Dunkirk Manor Fronting Road receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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