Parterre Retaining Walls, Urns, Steps and Pool Basin with Statue of Diana 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. Garden feature.
Parterre Retaining Walls, Urns, Steps and Pool Basin with Statue of Diana to Rear of Woolverstone Hall
- WRENN ID
- silver-chancel-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1987
- Type
- Garden feature
- OS grid reference
- TM 194 386
- Coordinates
- 52.0033, 1.19615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The parterre retaining walls, urns, steps, and pool basin with a statue of Diana are located at the rear of Woolverstone Hall. These features were designed in the 1850s by W A Nesfield for the Berners family. Made of artificial stone, the design includes a double flight of steps leading to the parterre retaining wall, which surrounds a pool basin that holds a statue of Diana on a pedestal. Additional parterre retaining walls flank the house and are circular in shape, with urns positioned at the center. This layout is part of the garden design created by Nesfield, which was described in 1867 as "the masterpiece of all his productions." The layout of the parterre remains distinguishable and is illustrated in the Gardeners Chronicle from February 16, 1867. A photograph of the site is available in the National Monuments Record.
Local climate
Parterre Retaining Walls, Urns, Steps and Pool Basin with Statue of Diana 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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