Pedestal Tomb of James Walker in Hough Hole House Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. A Victorian Tomb.
Pedestal Tomb of James Walker in Hough Hole House Gardens
- WRENN ID
- idle-rampart-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Pedestal Tomb of James Walker in Hough Hole House Gardens, Rainow
- OS grid reference
- SJ 946 763
- Coordinates
- 53.28405, -2.08217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pedestal tomb of James Walker, dated 1843, is located in the gardens of Hough Hole House. It is made of square buff sandstone and sits on a moulded plinth featuring inscribed raised panels. The tomb has a projecting cross-gabled capstone, which is adorned with carvings in the pediments and supports an urn surrounded by a border of acanthus leaves.
This tomb is the most westerly of a group of three pedestal tombs in the garden. While all three are of a standard Victorian design, the inscriptions are by James Mellor junior, many of which are lengthy and reflect the influence of the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg on the Walker family. The tomb is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
Pedestal Tomb of James Walker in Hough Hole House Gardens sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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