Group of 6 Garden Urns Flanking Main Steps to Wentworth Woodhouse (West Front) is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1985. Garden urn.
Group of 6 Garden Urns Flanking Main Steps to Wentworth Woodhouse (West Front)
- WRENN ID
- iron-brass-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rawmarsh and Conisbrough MP: John Healey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1985
- Type
- Garden urn
- OS grid reference
- SK 395 976
- Coordinates
- 53.47433, -1.40523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This group of six garden urns dates from the late 18th century and was created for the Wentworth estate. Made of sandstone, the urns are symmetrically arranged in a line, flanking the main steps at the west front of Wentworth Woodhouse. The two inner urns are oval in shape, while the outer urns are smaller and round. Each urn stands on a low plinth, features a flared foot, and has a moulded bowl with egg-and-dart decoration around the rim.
Local climate
Group of 6 Garden Urns Flanking Main Steps to Wentworth Woodhouse (West Front) 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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