Pair of Garden Walls Flanking Top Terrace of Melbourne Hall Gardens is a Grade II* listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. A Baroque Garden walls.

Pair of Garden Walls Flanking Top Terrace of Melbourne Hall Gardens

WRENN ID
deep-entrance-weasel
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1987
Type
Garden walls
Period
Baroque
Address
Pair of Garden Walls Flanking Top Terrace of Melbourne Hall Gardens, Church Close
OS grid reference
SK 390 249
Coordinates
52.82066, -1.42216
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This pair of garden walls, dating from around 1704 with later 18th-century additions, flank the top terrace of the Melbourne Hall Gardens. They were built as part of a French-style garden designed by the Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall. The construction was carried out by William Cooke of Walcot. The walls are made of red brick with stone dressings and feature a deep brick plinth with chamfered copings. Each wall stands approximately 15 feet high and extends the length of the upper terrace. At the east end of each wall, there is a pilaster strip on a moulded stone base above the plinth. Both walls have flat stone copings with moulded sides, and beyond the pilasters to the east, each wall has a later 18th-century extension that includes a segmental arch. The garden walls are included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I.

Local climate

Pair of Garden Walls Flanking Top Terrace of 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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