Garden Seat Approximately 70 Metres to North West of Woolley House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1990. Garden seat.
Garden Seat Approximately 70 Metres to North West of Woolley House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-barrel-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1990
- Type
- Garden seat
- OS grid reference
- SU 409 801
- Coordinates
- 51.51878, -1.41085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This garden seat, located approximately 70 metres northwest of Woolley House, dates from around 1800 and was altered in the 19th century. It is constructed from glazed blue brick in Flemish bond, with red brick and ashlar dressings, and features a concealed plain tile roof. The structure has an ashlar plinth, an impost band, and coping. It includes an elliptical archway that houses a wooden distyle in antiscolonnade, which has an entablature with a frieze featuring metopes and a guttal tympanum that is pebbledash-rendered. The parapet is topped with a brick die finial. Inside, there is a stone pavement and a panelled rear dado, with a bench seat. Each return has a six-panel door, with the openings heightened; the left return features a later insertion and leads into later premises, while the left side retains a seat with a lid. The rear wall has a blocked segmental-arched head. Woolley House was remodelled in 1799, and it is likely that this garden seat was built around the same time.
Local climate
Garden Seat Approximately 70 Metres to North West of Woolley House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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