Balustraded Retaining Wall Across East Front of Wortley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Retaining wall.
Balustraded Retaining Wall Across East Front of Wortley Hall
- WRENN ID
- kindled-sandstone-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1986
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Balustraded Retaining Wall Across East Front of Wortley Hall, Wortley Park
- OS grid reference
- SK 312 995
- Coordinates
- 53.49165, -1.52988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The balustraded retaining wall across the east front of Wortley Hall is likely from the early 19th century and was built for the Wortley Hall estate. It is made of rock-faced sandstone with ashlar detailing. The wall features 18 bays of balustrading positioned between intermediate and end dies. At the north end, there are steps and a detached pier, while the balustrade returns to enclose three sides of a recess at the south end of the terrace.
The end and alternate dies have a moulded plinth, sunken panels, and a cornice. The end dies and the freestanding pier are topped with vases that have fluted covers and foliage-carved knobs, while others are adorned with ball finials. The plain intermediate dies are connected by panels of turned balusters on a moulded plinth and feature corniced copings. A massive console bracket supports the northern end pier, and the return bays at the south end of the terrace are blind.
Lady Caroline Creighton, the wife of James Archibold Stuart Wortley, is credited with the early 19th-century landscape scheme that can still be seen at Wortley Hall.
Local climate
Balustraded Retaining Wall Across East Front of Wortley Hall receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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