Garden Walls, Seats and Tunnel to East of Newstead Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Gedling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Garden structure.
Garden Walls, Seats and Tunnel to East of Newstead Abbey
- WRENN ID
- far-brick-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gedling
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- Garden structure
- OS grid reference
- SK 543 537
- Coordinates
- 53.07845, -1.18978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls, seats, and tunnel located to the east of Newstead Abbey date from the early 18th century and early 20th century. They are constructed of coursed and squared rubble with ashlar dressings. The buttressed walls feature ramped slab copings and are arranged in a C plan.
In the north-west corner, there is a moulded semi-circular seat with an adjoining balustrade from the early 20th century. The north terrace wall includes a lower ramped central section topped with ball finials. To the left, a pair of wrought iron gates is set between square piers, each topped with ball finials. The north-east corner has a view stopper with a ramped crenellated parapet, remnants of a central crest, and a pair of pierced obelisk finials.
The south wall features two square piers, a central tunnel with a keystoned semi-circular head, and an off-centre moulded stone seat. In the south-east corner, there are wrought iron gates on each side, again flanked by square piers and pierced obelisk finials.
Local climate
Garden Walls, Seats and Tunnel to East of Newstead Abbey 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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