Summerhouse Cave 45 Metres South East of Number 14a is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Cave.
Summerhouse Cave 45 Metres South East of Number 14a
- WRENN ID
- upper-chimney-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1995
- Type
- Cave
- OS grid reference
- SK 565 398
- Coordinates
- 52.95296, -1.15962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Summerhouse Cave, located 45 metres south-east of Number 14A, is a man-made ornamental cave dated 1872, created for Alderman Thomas Herbert. The cave is rectangular, measuring approximately 6 metres by 2 metres, and features a central opening on the west side. Its walls are adorned with relief carvings, half-columns, and wall recesses decorated with tufa. In the centre of the cave, there is a font. This cave, along with others in the vicinity, was originally part of the garden features in the grounds of Herbert's house in the Ropewalk. The buildings above are not of special interest.
Local climate
Summerhouse Cave 45 Metres South East of Number 14a sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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