Courtyard wall and gatepiers E of Powis Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 March 1975. Wall, gatepiers.
Courtyard wall and gatepiers E of Powis Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- heavy-pillar-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1975
- Type
- Wall, gatepiers
- Address
- Courtyard wall and gatepiers E of Powis Almshouses, Chepstow
- OS grid reference
- ST 534 940
- Coordinates
- 51.64308, -2.67417
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The courtyard wall and gatepiers east of Powis Almshouses is a curved stone rubble wall topped with flat concrete coping. This wall connects the front corners of the two wings and increases in depth to accommodate the steep slope, rather than stepping. In the center, there is a gateway featuring tall double iron gates that are down-swept and adorned with spear finials and an urn. The square stone gate piers have moulded cornices, pyramidal caps, and ball finials, although the ball finials are currently not in their original position.
Local climate
Courtyard wall and gatepiers E of Powis Almshouses receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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