The Alcove and Approach Steps at North End of Lime Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Ornamental garden building.

The Alcove and Approach Steps at North End of Lime Avenue

WRENN ID
shifting-nave-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1987
Type
Ornamental garden building
Address
The Alcove and Approach Steps at North End of Lime Avenue, Biddulph
OS grid reference
SJ 892 591
Coordinates
53.12965, -2.16283
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Alcove and approach steps at the north end of Lime Avenue is an ornamental garden building constructed between 1848 and 1860 by John Bateman. It is made of dressed stone and features three steps leading up to an elliptically-arched alcove that is approximately 2 meters wide. The alcove is supported by moulded and panelled square columns, has a three-panelled rear wall, and includes a stone seat on shaped legs.

Local climate

The Alcove and Approach Steps at North End of Lime Avenue receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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