Garden Terraces, Walls, Glasshouses and Fernery to North-West of Locko Park is a Grade II listed building in the Erewash local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 2000. Garden terraces, walls, glasshouses, fernery.
Garden Terraces, Walls, Glasshouses and Fernery to North-West of Locko Park
- WRENN ID
- little-hall-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Erewash
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire MP: Jonathan Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 2000
- Type
- Garden terraces, walls, glasshouses, fernery
- Address
- Garden Terraces, Walls, Glasshouses and Fernery to North-West of Locko Park, Locko Park Road, Dale Abbey
- OS grid reference
- SK 408 387
- Coordinates
- 52.94468, -1.39299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden walls, terraces, glasshouses and fernery to the north-west of Locko Park, located approximately 30 metres from the house with their main axis running north-east to south-west.
The garden walls enclose a square approximately 150 metres on each side. They are constructed of red brick and gault brick with ashlar and terracotta dressings. The south garden wall features niches and intermediate piers topped with urns. A central gateway has square brick piers with dentillated caps surmounted by lead winged lions, and is fitted with double wrought iron gates. The east and west walls contain round-arched doorways, and the east wall has a late 20th-century lean-to addition. The garden is divided by four radial paths centred on a round pond.
The terrace retaining wall has stone coping with brick dentillations and intermediate square piers. A central flight of stone steps with coping to the balustrade walls ascends the terrace. At the west end, a wall with panelled square piers and stone coping links the terrace retaining wall to what was formerly the glasshouse structure. A round-arched gateway with shaped terracotta keystone and finial has double wrought iron gates. On the north side is an ashlar wall with rounded ashlar coping forming an eye-shaped enclosure known as the bull pen, with a pair of square gatepiers with pyramidal caps to the east. At the east end, a semicircular projection is retained by a red brick wall with stone coping and ball finials. North of this, stone steps lead to a wrought iron screen and gate flanked by rusticated piers with ball finials. To the east stands a round cast iron vase on a stone plinth with octagonal stem and rolled rim.
The glasshouse range comprises a central conservatory with canted central projection under a hipped roof and lean-to side ranges, set on a chamfered ashlar plinth. On either side are lower lean-to additions with gault brick plinths and beds enclosed by brick walls, probably intended as vine houses. The glasshouse structures are constructed of wood with cast iron columns, brackets and fittings. The heated rear wall of red brick was refronted in gault brick in the mid-19th century and has a ramped stone coping with ball finials. The western section has a demolished wall. The eastern section has a boundary wall with piers and round-arched gateway identical to that at the west end of the terrace.
To the rear west stands a lean-to fernery with central gabled porch and double doors, designed by Foster & Pearson of Beeston. The interior contains tufa fixtures and glazed double doors opening into the main glasshouses. In the centre are lean-to potting sheds, bothy, stokehole and stores of red brick with Welsh slate roofs, comprising single-storey and two-storey sections. At the east end is a tunnel leading to nearby farm buildings, constructed of red brick with a round arch to the east finished with keystone and stone-coped parapet wall. A datestone with illegible inscription is present. East of the arch are retaining walls approximately 15 metres long of red brick with stone copings and square gatepiers with pyramidal caps. Double wrought iron gates with skeleton piers, dating from the mid-19th century, complete this section.
The complex was probably begun around 1790–1827 by William Drury Lowe and was remodelled in an Italianate style around 1849–1877 by William Drury Holden/Lowe. Later 19th-century alterations and additions were carried out for W.D.N. Drury Lowe (died 1906), with minor late 20th-century alterations and additions subsequently made.
Local climate
Garden Terraces, Walls, Glasshouses and Fernery to North-West of Locko Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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