Covered Seat to East of Fountain Pond in Melbourne Hall Gardens is a Grade I listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1967. A C1704 Covered garden seat.

Covered Seat to East of Fountain Pond in Melbourne Hall Gardens

WRENN ID
carved-iron-aspen
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1967
Type
Covered garden seat
Address
Covered Seat to East of Fountain Pond in Melbourne Hall Gardens, Church Close
OS grid reference
SK 392 248
Coordinates
52.81982, -1.41922
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The covered seat located to the east of the Fountain Pond in Melbourne Hall Gardens is a Grade I listed garden feature dating from around 1704, with later repairs. It was created as part of a French-style garden designed by the Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall, with construction carried out by William Cooke of Walcot. The structure is made of stuccoed brick and timber, featuring a curved timber bench on turned legs set within an apsidal structure. This is complemented by a stuccoed segmental brick wall topped with a domed lead roof, along with simple panelled timber jambs and a segmental cornice that includes a raised keystone. This seat was built as a pair to a similar seat located to the west. It is also included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I.

Local climate

Covered Seat to East of Fountain Pond in Melbourne Hall Gardens sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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