Retaining Wall of Bowling Green at The Kymin is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 August 2005. Wall.
Retaining Wall of Bowling Green at The Kymin
- WRENN ID
- far-pavement-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 August 2005
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Retaining Wall of Bowling Green at The Kymin, Monmouth
- OS grid reference
- SO 528 124
- Coordinates
- 51.80902, -2.68538
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The retaining wall of the bowling green at The Kymin is made of red sandstone rubble and surrounds three sides of a square area where the green is set into the hillside on the west. The wall features a cock-and-hen coping and stands approximately 1 meter high on the inside, rising to about 2.5 meters at its highest point on the outside.
Local climate
Retaining Wall of Bowling Green at The Kymin receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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