South Terrace Retaining Wall Including Parapet and Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1968. Retaining wall, gateway.
South Terrace Retaining Wall Including Parapet and Gateway
- WRENN ID
- over-clay-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rawmarsh and Conisbrough MP: John Healey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1968
- Type
- Retaining wall, gateway
- Address
- South Terrace Retaining Wall Including Parapet and Gateway, Wentworth
- OS grid reference
- SK 394 975
- Coordinates
- 53.47289, -1.40749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Terrace retaining wall, including a parapet and gateway, was begun around 1735 by Ralph Tunnicliffe for Thomas Watson Wentworth, with some later rebuilding. It is constructed of coursed, squared sandstone and features dressed sandstone buttresses. The retaining wall stretches from behind the south tower of Wentworth Woodhouse to a bastion, and then returns westward with a central bay that slightly projects, leading to another bay projection opposite the Ionic Temple. It continues for a short distance as a freestanding wall that includes a carriage entrance flanked by side gates. Buttresses are positioned approximately every 18 meters on the south-facing section. The bastion features a wall sundial by J. Metcalfe, dated 1767, although the gnomon is missing, and there is a half-round band beneath the parapet with weathered copings. The east-facing section of the wall is steeply battered and does not have buttresses. This structure is said to have been inspired by Lord Carlisle's terrace at Castle Howard.
Local climate
South Terrace Retaining Wall Including Parapet and Gateway 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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