Doric Screen Garden Walls Terrace and Parterre Curb North of Bishton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1995. Garden structure.
Doric Screen Garden Walls Terrace and Parterre Curb North of Bishton Hall
- WRENN ID
- riven-corridor-poplar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1995
- Type
- Garden structure
- Address
- Doric Screen Garden Walls Terrace and Parterre Curb North of Bishton Hall, Bellamour Lane, Colwich
- OS grid reference
- SK 023 208
- Coordinates
- 52.78537, -1.96624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Doric screen, garden walls, terrace, and parterre curb north of Bishton Hall date from around the 1840s and were designed by an unknown architect. Constructed from pink sandstone ashlar, the structure features a screen on the north side with a central summerhouse designed as a Greek Doric hexastyle apteral temple, flanked by porticos that are distyle in antis. In front of the screen, there is a terrace adorned with vases and steps leading down to a formal garden, which is enclosed by low boundary walls. At the center of the garden is an elaborately shaped parterre, which has been converted into a fish pond and is surrounded by large moulded curb stones. The summerhouse is intricately detailed, with a semi-circular interior lined with ashlar, pilastered walls, niches, and a stone bench. It is worth noting that the screen may have been constructed to shield the gardens from the nearby Trent Valley Railway Line, built between 1845 and 1847.
Local climate
Doric Screen Garden Walls Terrace and Parterre Curb North of Bishton Hall receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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