Sunken Garden to Rear of Woolverstone House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1987. Garden.
Sunken Garden to Rear of Woolverstone House
- WRENN ID
- graven-frieze-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1987
- Type
- Garden
- Address
- Sunken Garden to Rear of Woolverstone House, Mannings Lane
- OS grid reference
- TM 182 387
- Coordinates
- 52.00417, 1.17883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The sunken garden to the rear of Woolverstone House is a significant garden designed in 1901 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Mrs. Berners. It features stone slabs, brick, and tiles. The garden includes a paved area surrounded by brick retaining walls topped with stone coping. A circular flight of steps, which has tile risers, is built around an inset millstone. This garden is included for its group value with the main house.
Local climate
Sunken Garden to Rear of Woolverstone House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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