Walls Steps and Gazebos to South West of Forecourt at Harlaxton Manor is a Grade I listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Garden structure.
Walls Steps and Gazebos to South West of Forecourt at Harlaxton Manor
- WRENN ID
- crooked-ashlar-aspen
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden structure
- Address
- Walls Steps and Gazebos to South West of Forecourt at Harlaxton Manor, Grantham Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 894 322
- Coordinates
- 52.88055, -0.67186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls, steps, and gazebos located to the south-west of the forecourt at Harlaxton Manor were constructed between 1838 and 1854, likely designed by William Burn for Gregory Gregory. These structures are made of ashlar and feature sculptures in Coade stone, showcasing a Renaissance Revival style.
The terrace wall along the south-west side of the forecourt includes a short flight of steps flanked by pedestals topped with lion sculptures, leading to a square platform surrounded by balustrade walls and strapwork pedestals that hold urns. From this platform, a polygonal staircase ascends between balustrades adorned with strapwork pedestals and urns, leading to a gateway with wrought-iron gates. The square gatepiers are accented with rusticated corner pilasters and topped with figures of children and dogs.
On either side of the terrace wall, there is plain coping with intermediate pedestals featuring moulded flat caps and urns. The buttressed north-west terrace wall has raised sections at each end with pilasters and volutes, leading to a gazebo. The square gazebos are single-storey structures with a basement, topped with slated square ogee domes and finials. They feature stepped angle buttresses, a cornice, corner pedestals with finials, and blind dormers with rusticated round arches and finials.
Three sides of the gazebos have unglazed 12-light cross mullioned windows, while the inner side has a similar window with a doorcase in front, complete with a moulded lintel, half-round pediment, and three finials. The south-west side includes an off-centre viewing point flanked by large volutes, and to its left, there is a triple gateway with wrought-iron gates and an overthrow, along with square piers topped with cornices. The south-east side features a low screen wall with openings and two pairs of steps, as well as a round-arched blind arcade, moulded coping, and pedestals with ball finials.
These structures are part of the Harlaxton Manor Gardens, which are registered at grade II*.
Local climate
Walls Steps and Gazebos to South West of Forecourt at Harlaxton Manor 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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