Terrace Walls and Steps Below Bawdsey Manor is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Terrace walls.
Terrace Walls and Steps Below Bawdsey Manor
- WRENN ID
- woven-pedestal-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Terrace walls
- Address
- Terrace Walls and Steps Below Bawdsey Manor, (Off) Ferry Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 334 377
- Coordinates
- 51.98939, 1.39936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The terrace walls and steps below Bawdsey Manor, built around 1900, consist of three red brick retaining walls with ashlar dressings and flights of steps connecting different levels. The lowest wall is approximately 3 feet high, while the two upper walls are about 8 feet high. These walls are linked by an Imperial staircase that rises from two lower flights to a landing over a seating recess, and then continues as a single flight. All walls feature ashlar coping and regularly spaced pilaster buttresses with flat ashlar caps. The staircase includes ashlar treads, square piers with flat ashlar caps, and open ashlar panels of strapwork in the balustrade. It ascends via two lower flights of 11 steps to quarter-landings, followed by two additional flights of 10 steps that lead to the landing above the loggia, which has a 4-centred archway made of moulded brick. Above this, there is a flight of 3 steps leading to the lower terrace level, and nine more steps that ascend to the upper terrace level.
Local climate
Terrace Walls and Steps Below Bawdsey Manor 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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