Balustraded Retaining Wall with Gateways, Steps and Ha-Has to Rear of Woolverstone Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1987. Retaining wall.

Balustraded Retaining Wall with Gateways, Steps and Ha-Has to Rear of Woolverstone Hall

WRENN ID
night-kitchen-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1987
Type
Retaining wall
OS grid reference
TM 195 386
Coordinates
52.00296, 1.19755
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The balustraded retaining wall with gateways, steps, and ha-has is located at the rear of Woolverstone Hall and dates from the 1850s. It was designed by W A Nesfield for the Berners family. The structure is made of artificial stone and brick, featuring cast and wrought iron gates. The rusticated ha-has rise from 1 to 2 metres in height, and the walls are topped with balustrades. The opposing gateways have corniced piers that are adorned with banded ball finials. The central gates are flanked by railings that include fleur-de-lys bars and spearhead dogbars, and the gates themselves feature central oval and scrollwork designs. This wall is part of the garden layout that was illustrated in the Gardeners Chronicle on February 16, 1867.

Local climate

Balustraded Retaining Wall with Gateways, Steps and Ha-Has to Rear of Woolverstone Hall 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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