Eight Garden Urns Flanking the Main Garden Axis North of Belton House is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1994. Garden feature.
Eight Garden Urns Flanking the Main Garden Axis North of Belton House
- WRENN ID
- winter-footing-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1994
- Type
- Garden feature
- Address
- Eight Garden Urns Flanking the Main Garden Axis North of Belton House, Belton Park, Belton and Manthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SK 930 393
- Coordinates
- 52.94388, -0.61743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eight garden urns are arranged in two rows of four, located north of Belton House. These urns date from the late 17th century and are made of ashlar stone. They are globular in shape and decorated with foliage, with two of the urns also featuring masks. Each urn is set on a square pedestal with plain bases and caps, standing approximately 1.5 meters high. This group of urns is situated within Belton Park, which is listed on the Gardens Register at grade I.
Local climate
Eight Garden Urns Flanking the Main Garden Axis North of Belton House 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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