Spiral Column Near North-East Corner of Walled Garden in Nunwick Park is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Column.
Spiral Column Near North-East Corner of Walled Garden in Nunwick Park
- WRENN ID
- muffled-attic-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Column
- Address
- Spiral Column Near North-East Corner of Walled Garden in Nunwick Park, B6320, Simonburn
- OS grid reference
- NY 878 739
- Coordinates
- 55.06023, -2.19184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The spiral column located near the north-east corner of the walled garden in Nunwick Park is a Grade II listed structure. It is likely a 17th-century column that has been re-set as a garden ornament. The column is made of sandstone and features a square-plan, two-step plinth. The base consists of a 0.5-metre high fragment of a cylindrical pier with four engaged shafts. The spiral column itself is truncated and stands at 2.0 metres high, with flutes cut into the arris.
Local climate
Spiral Column Near North-East Corner of Walled Garden in Nunwick Park receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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