Terrace and Attached Ha Ha Wall Immediately South of Bretton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1988. Terrace, wall.
Terrace and Attached Ha Ha Wall Immediately South of Bretton Hall
- WRENN ID
- gilded-nave-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1988
- Type
- Terrace, wall
- Address
- Terrace and Attached Ha Ha Wall Immediately South of Bretton Hall, Park Lane, West Bretton
- OS grid reference
- SE 283 127
- Coordinates
- 53.61035, -1.57298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The terrace and attached ha-ha wall located immediately south of Bretton Hall were likely constructed between 1811 and 1814 for Colonel Thomas Richard and Diana Beaumont. The structure is made of ashlar and features battered, vermiculated retaining walls with terminal buttresses. It includes a balustrade adorned with vase balusters and a heavy moulded rail. There are low, square ashlar piers with sunk panels and flat moulded caps that are decorated with acanthus carvings. The main piers are larger and have limestone panels featuring relief carvings of Italianate romantic figures. The retaining wall extends westward as the ha-ha.
Local climate
Terrace and Attached Ha Ha Wall Immediately South of Bretton Hall receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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