Stone Surround to T Shaped Pond is a Grade I listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Pond.
Stone Surround to T Shaped Pond
- WRENN ID
- lesser-wicket-magpie
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Pond
- Address
- Stone Surround to T Shaped Pond, Bramham Park, Barwick in Elmet and Scholes
- OS grid reference
- SE 406 412
- Coordinates
- 53.86547, -1.38357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stone surround to a T-shaped pond, located in Bramham Park, was begun in 1728 and is possibly designed by John Wood the Elder for Robert Benson. The structure features ashlar and earth banks, with only the cross piece of the "T" nearest the house having stone retaining walls that include angled chamfered coping. The longer section of the canal has earth banks with neatly clipped turf, which encourages waterfowl to use this area, unlike the other ponds that are entirely surrounded by stone. This design appears to be an original part of the elaborate geometrical layout that largely remains from Wood's plan of 1725-28. Most of the canal is situated in the civil parish of Bramham cum Oglethorpe, while the section with earth banks lies within the parish of Barwick-in-Elmet. The site is illustrated in G. Lane Fox's guidebook on Bramham Park from 1985 and is mentioned in several notable publications on English gardens and landscapes.
Local climate
Stone Surround to T Shaped Pond receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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