Boundary Wall with Gates and Piers, to Winchcombe Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1984. Boundary wall.

Boundary Wall with Gates and Piers, to Winchcombe Abbey

WRENN ID
slow-wicket-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tewkesbury
Constituency
Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1984
Type
Boundary wall
Address
Boundary Wall with Gates and Piers, to Winchcombe Abbey, Abbey Terrace
OS grid reference
SP 024 282
Coordinates
51.95265, -1.96641
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The boundary wall with gates and piers at Winchcombe Abbey was built in 1835. It is made of cut and squared coursed limestone on a plinth, featuring plain chamfered weathering and weathered coping. The wall stands approximately 2.25 meters high overall, with a sweeping rise at the left-hand end where it meets the gate piers to St Peter's Church. The wall extends to the right, including a gate in an arched opening, and continues as far as the coped section opposite the north-west corner of Lloyd's Bank.

Near the left-hand end, there are a pair of square piers, each about 2.75 meters high, made of limestone ashlar. These piers have ogee-mould domed cappings, a frieze, and square mouldings that support a pair of wrought iron gates with a segmental-shaped top, spear-head verticals, intermediates, and decorative hanging-rails. At the near right-hand end, there is another wrought iron gate featuring quatrefoil panels set in a 4-centred arch, with chamfered responds under flat coping that sweeps up at this section of the wall.

This wall is an important feature of the improvements made to Abbey Terrace during the establishment of the Winchcombe Road Trustees, as the road was previously only about 3 meters wide at this point. Backed by trees, the wall contributes significantly to the townscape in the heart of Winchcombe.

Local climate

Boundary Wall with Gates and Piers, to Winchcombe Abbey receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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