Gazebo and Retaining Wall to South West of Achards is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1960. Gazebo.
Gazebo and Retaining Wall to South West of Achards
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1960
- Type
- Gazebo
- Address
- Gazebo and Retaining Wall to South West of Achards, Bath Road, Rodborough, GL5 5NA
- OS grid reference
- SO 841 034
- Coordinates
- 51.72977, -2.23158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gazebo and its attached retaining wall, located to the southwest of Achards, date from the mid-18th century. The structure features roughcast render, an ashlar chimney, and a stone slate roof. It is square in shape and built into a bank, with a cellar beneath. The gazebo has a moulded cornice at the eaves of its hipped roof, which includes a central octagonal chimney. The render displays patterning at the corners.
On the east side, there is a doorway with a bolection moulded architrave topped by a broken pediment, which features an egg above a pulvinated frieze, leading to a six-panel fielded door. The west side has a window with a moulded architrave and a bull-nosed sill, containing a 24-pane sash with thick glazing bars. A plain floor level band is present, along with un-rendered random rubble visible in the cellar below, which has a central plank door. A blocked window with a moulded architrave and bull-nosed sill can be found on the north side.
Inside, there is an early 19th-century fireplace located centrally on the south wall, and 19th-century cupboards on the east wall. The gazebo is built into a high retaining wall that forms the forecourt to the west of Achards.
Local climate
Gazebo and Retaining Wall to South West of Achards 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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