Lowest Terrace Wall at Whitehurst Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 1998. Terrace wall.

Lowest Terrace Wall at Whitehurst Gardens

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 July 1998
Type
Terrace wall
Address
Lowest Terrace Wall at Whitehurst Gardens, Chirk
OS grid reference
SJ 288 400
Coordinates
52.95272, -3.06093
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The lowest terrace wall at Whitehurst Gardens is a Grade II listed structure made of red brick and stands approximately 3.5 meters high. It features regular 33-centimeter pilaster buttresses and is located within the gardens. The top seven courses of the wall have been rebuilt and are topped with a flat stone coping. The wall follows the curved line of the two higher terrace walls and connects at its southwest end to Queen Anne's Cottage. The eastern end of the wall was altered in 1931 to allow for the road leading to the colliery housing.

Local climate

Lowest Terrace Wall at Whitehurst Gardens receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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