Entrance Steps to Mawdesley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. Stairs.
Entrance Steps to Mawdesley Hall
- WRENN ID
- brooding-mantel-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1952
- Type
- Stairs
- Address
- Entrance Steps to Mawdesley Hall, New Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 497 150
- Coordinates
- 53.62982, -2.76103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance steps to Mawdesley Hall, dated 1653, feature an integral viewing platform on an open-topped turret. They are located on a steep bank that separates the garden above from the road below. The steps rise from the east, running parallel to the garden's retaining wall, and lead to the open side of an enclosed platform atop a short turret that projects from the bank. Constructed from sandstone, the flight consists of 8 steps, which are protected on the outer side by a sloped parapet with roll-moulded coping. This coping extends around the viewing platform and includes looplights in the sides. It is said that the structure incorporates a stone bearing the initials of Robert Mawdesley along with the date 1653, although this stone has become heavily overgrown as of 1985.
Local climate
Entrance Steps to Mawdesley Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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