Garden Boundary Walls to Former Whitworth Estate Garden on Whitworth Road, Foggs Hill and Bent Lane, Including Vr Post Box to SW is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 2003. Garden wall.

Garden Boundary Walls to Former Whitworth Estate Garden on Whitworth Road, Foggs Hill and Bent Lane, Including Vr Post Box to SW

WRENN ID
woven-spire-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Derbyshire Dales
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 2003
Type
Garden wall
Address
Garden Boundary Walls to Former Whitworth Estate Garden on Whitworth Road, Foggs Hill and Bent Lane, Including Vr Post Box to SW, Darley Dale
OS grid reference
SK 268 640
Coordinates
53.17273, -1.5992
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden boundary walls to the former Whitworth Estate garden, located on Whitworth Road, Foggs Hill, and Bent Lane, were built around the 1870s. They may have been constructed by T. Roger Smith in 1872 or E. M. Barry in 1879, both of whom worked on Stancliffe Hall for Sir Joseph Whitworth, an industrialist. The walls are made of Derbyshire grit stone, which is dressed, coursed, and rock-faced, featuring saddle-back coping that is also rock-faced. The walls have curved corners, and at the entrance, they rise to rock-faced grit stone piers with caps. The wall at the north end is lower and once supported iron railings, which are now missing. A Victorian post box is set into the southwest corner. Along with the east garden boundary wall of Stancliffe Hall, these walls are a prominent feature of Darley Hillside.

Local climate

Garden Boundary Walls to Former Whitworth Estate Garden on Whitworth Road, Foggs Hill and Bent Lane, Including Vr Post Box to SW receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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