Garden Causeway at Copt Hall and Attached Ha Ha and Terrace Wall to West of Copt Hall (In the Parish of Epping Upland) is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1989. Garden causeway.
Garden Causeway at Copt Hall and Attached Ha Ha and Terrace Wall to West of Copt Hall (In the Parish of Epping Upland)
- WRENN ID
- muffled-rood-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1989
- Type
- Garden causeway
- Address
- Garden Causeway at Copt Hall and Attached Ha Ha and Terrace Wall to West of Copt Hall (In the Parish of Epping Upland), Waltham Abbey
- OS grid reference
- TL 428 014
- Coordinates
- 51.69399, 0.06611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden causeway at Copt Hall, built around 1895 by C. E. Kempe for Edward James Wythes, is a notable structure made of brick with a facing of squared and coursed limestone and ashlar coping. It extends approximately 60 meters in an east-west direction and features a rusticated through-arch along with the remains of stone steps that lead down to sunken parterres located to the north and south of the causeway. At its eastern end, the causeway connects to the center of a terrace wall that borders the eastern sides of the parterres and extends to meet garden pavilions at both the north and south ends. The west end of the causeway has a semi-circular projection that is part of the ha-ha wall, which extends about 40 meters to the south and forms an L shape extending approximately 70 meters to the northwest. Originally, the causeway included balustrading, obelisks, and statuary, and it was part of a formal garden designed in the Edwardian Baroque style, as advocated by Reginald Blomfield in his 1892 book "The Formal Garden in England."
Local climate
Garden Causeway at Copt Hall and Attached Ha Ha and Terrace Wall to West of Copt Hall (In the Parish of Epping Upland) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 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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