Sunken Garden and Rose Arbor is a Grade II listed building in the Bassetlaw local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1985. Garden structure.
Sunken Garden and Rose Arbor
- WRENN ID
- sacred-pavement-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bassetlaw
- Constituency
- Bassetlaw MP: Jo White (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1985
- Type
- Garden structure
- Address
- Sunken Garden and Rose Arbor, North Drive, Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck
- OS grid reference
- SK 561 742
- Coordinates
- 53.26271, -1.15978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sunken Garden and Rose Arbor at Welbeck Abbey is a late 19th-century garden feature that includes two summer houses. The walls are made of red brick with rough hewn stone facing, and the entrances are located to the east, featuring decorative iron gates. Inside, on the south side, there is a summer house with a balustraded base supported by four herms. The north side features a wooden summer house with a pediment and a copper roof. This pediment is supported by columns and has a modillion cornice along with a central clock face. To the right of this summer house is a doorway with a glazed door and overlight, flanked by single columns. In the northeast corner, there is a projecting bay. Surrounding the edges of the pools and tennis court are coped piers. The garden connects to the Welbeck Abbey Ballroom through a rose arbor that has part rusticated walls, rock face ashlar rose troughs, and a glazed roof.
Local climate
Sunken Garden and Rose Arbor receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% 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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