Columns Cave Adjoining Number 14a to East is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Cave.
Columns Cave Adjoining Number 14a to East
- WRENN ID
- ghost-stair-swift
- 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
- 52.95345, -1.15949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Columns Cave, adjoining No. 14A to the east, is a man-made ornamental cave dating from around 1870, created for Alderman Thomas Herbert. The cave is rectangular, measuring approximately 13 meters by 7 meters and standing 3 meters high, with an open west end. Its roof is supported by three rows of six square rock columns, each featuring relief panels and capitals, although one column has been replaced with brick. The walls are accented by similar half-columns, with bas relief figures and crucifixes positioned between them. This cave is located beneath Park Terrace, while an adjoining cave to the east was filled in during 1976. These caves, along with others in the vicinity, were designed as garden features for Herbert's house in the Ropewalk, which is not included in this listing. The buildings above the cave do not hold special interest.
Local climate
Columns Cave Adjoining Number 14a to East 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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