Upper Terrace Wall, Garden Before South Front of Tatton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. Terrace wall.

Upper Terrace Wall, Garden Before South Front of Tatton Hall

WRENN ID
rooted-gable-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Type
Terrace wall
Address
Upper Terrace Wall, Garden Before South Front of Tatton Hall, Millington and Rostherne
OS grid reference
SJ 745 815
Coordinates
53.33025, -2.38333
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Upper Terrace Wall, located in the garden before the south front of Tatton Hall, was built around 1860 by Sir Joseph Paxton. This terrace wall is made of sandstone and marble and features a central staircase flanked by sloping walls, each with its own staircase. The wall is rusticated and topped with moulded capping stones. The central staircase consists of 12 steps divided into two flights of 6 steps each, with a middle landing that has two low piers on either side. These piers support large marble urns that have gadrooned lower bodies, with vine trails around the upper bodies and egg and dart carvings along the lip. At both ends of the wall, there are similar large urns, along with four smaller vases that are simply carved with gadrooning running the length of the wall. Additionally, there are pairs of urns at the top of each set of abutting steps.

Local climate

Upper Terrace Wall, Garden Before South Front of Tatton Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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