Dam and Retaining Walls of Pond by the Walled Garden at Piercefield Park is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 February 2001. Dam, retaining wall.
Dam and Retaining Walls of Pond by the Walled Garden at Piercefield Park
- WRENN ID
- brooding-loggia-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 February 2001
- Type
- Dam, retaining wall
- Address
- Dam and Retaining Walls of Pond by the Walled Garden at Piercefield Park, Chepstow
- OS grid reference
- ST 527 957
- Coordinates
- 51.65892, -2.68479
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The dam and retaining walls of the pond by the walled garden at Piercefield Park are constructed from stone rubble. The dam has a bowed shape and features a central arched niche that likely once held a fountain. Below this niche, there is another niche that still contains an iron water pipe. The dam reaches a height of approximately 3 meters at its center and spans about 30 meters in length. It forms one side of a rectangular pool, which is now mostly dry, with low rubble walls enclosing the other sides.
Local climate
Dam and Retaining Walls of Pond by the Walled Garden at Piercefield Park 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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