Garden Wall East of Alton Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. A N/A Garden wall.
Garden Wall East of Alton Towers
- WRENN ID
- muted-doorway-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1986
- Type
- Garden wall
- Period
- N/A
- Address
- Garden Wall East of Alton Towers, Farley
- OS grid reference
- SK 073 431
- Coordinates
- 52.98558, -1.89167
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden wall east of Alton Towers is a Grade II listed structure dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of ashlar stone with edged herringbone tooling. The wall is connected to the east side of the gatehouse of Alton Towers and encloses a roughly square garden that surrounds The Birdcage. It features a crenellated parapet. This wall is an important part of the garden layout at Alton Towers, which is recognized as Grade I on the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Gardens Register.
Local climate
Garden Wall East of Alton Towers receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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