Bear Pit Approximately 40 Metres to West North West of Camellia House is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1985. Garden feature.
Bear Pit Approximately 40 Metres to West North West of Camellia House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-lime-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rawmarsh and Conisbrough MP: John Healey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1985
- Type
- Garden feature
- OS grid reference
- SK 390 977
- Coordinates
- 53.47479, -1.41313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bear Pit, located approximately 40 metres to the west-north-west of Camellia House, is a garden feature dating from the 18th century, which incorporates a doorway from around 1630. It was created for the Wentworth Estate. The 1630 doorway is made of limestone, while the upper entrance features ashlar sandstone, and the interior consists of rubble sandstone with a brick vault. The structure is set beneath an overgrown earth mound and has a grotto-style entrance leading to a curved tunnel that connects to a vaulted chamber. Internal steps rise to a landing and the upper entrance.
The 1630 doorway is designed in Jacobean style, showcasing elaborate carvings on the piers, frieze, and scrolled pediment, topped with a cartouche finial. The upper doorway has a shouldered lintel and includes a cast-iron plaque.
Inside, there is a subterranean circular room with a rebated ashlar surround at the round-arched tunnel doorway, and small flanking doorways lead to two vaulted cells. Stone steps with an iron rail lead up to the domical roof. A plaque above the upper doorway reads:
"There is a healing in the garden When one longs for peace and pardon Once past the gate no need to wait For God is in the garden."
Local climate
Bear Pit Approximately 40 Metres to West North West of Camellia House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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