The Great Wall of China, Chinese Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Garden building.

The Great Wall of China, Chinese Garden

WRENN ID
night-stronghold-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1987
Type
Garden building
Address
The Great Wall of China, Chinese Garden, Biddulph
OS grid reference
SJ 893 591
Coordinates
53.12915, -2.16125
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Great Wall of China is an ornamental garden building located in the Chinese Garden at Biddulph Grange, constructed between 1848 and 1860 by John Bateman. It features ornamental garden walls with two gateways, made from random coursed stone that is finished to look ruinous. The two walls are approximately 5 meters apart and 2.5 meters high, both built into an artificial bank to the east. The north wall has two round-arch entries, with the lower entry leading to a pathway and corbelled stonework over the arch. The south entrance features a single round arch. This structure is part of the Chinese Garden's pathway and is set against a perimeter bank made of massive imported local boulders.

Local climate

The Great Wall of China, Chinese Garden 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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