Wall bounding driveway to the Stables and continuing the stable yard screen is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 1998. Wall.

Wall bounding driveway to the Stables and continuing the stable yard screen

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
Wall
Address
Wall bounding driveway to the Stables and continuing the stable yard screen, Chirk Castle, Chirk
OS grid reference
SJ 268 380
Coordinates
52.93476, -3.09038
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The wall bounding the driveway to the Stables and continuing the stable yard screen is approximately 800 meters long and 1.5 meters high. It is constructed of uncoursed rubble stonework topped with a triangular ashlar coping. At the top, the wall connects to the end of the screen wall for the stable yard, and at the bottom of the steep driveway, it ends in a square pier that features three offsetting ashlar copings arranged to form a pyramid.

Local climate

Wall bounding driveway to the Stables and continuing the stable yard screen receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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