Garden Seat, in Herbaceous Garden, at Anglesey Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. Garden structure. 1 related planning application.
Garden Seat, in Herbaceous Garden, at Anglesey Abbey
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-dormer-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1984
- Type
- Garden structure
- Address
- Garden Seat, in Herbaceous Garden, at Anglesey Abbey, Quy Road, Lode, CB5 9EJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 530 623
- Coordinates
- 52.23816, 0.23959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden seat located in the Herbaceous Garden at Anglesey Abbey is an 18th-century structure made of white marble. It features a Bacchic frieze and arms depicting fauns playing pipes.
Local climate
Garden Seat, in Herbaceous Garden, at Anglesey Abbey sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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