Garden Boundary Walls Enclosing Frontage of Mells Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Garden boundary wall.
Garden Boundary Walls Enclosing Frontage of Mells Manor
- WRENN ID
- hidden-granite-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Garden boundary wall
- OS grid reference
- ST 727 493
- Coordinates
- 51.24281, -2.39223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden boundary walls enclosing the frontage of Mells Manor date from the 17th century and extend 76 meters to the north and 75 meters to the east. They are 3 meters high and constructed of Doulting rubble. The northern wall features eight half-round buttresses without capitals and a central depressed arch door opening, which contains a studded plank door with strap hinges. Above this door is a stone plaque depicting a talbot. The wall running eastward includes a 4-centred door opening with a stone surround and a plank door.
Local climate
Garden Boundary Walls Enclosing Frontage of Mells Manor receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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