Cromwell's Seat 400 Metres East North East of Embley House is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Garden seat. 1 related planning application.
Cromwell's Seat 400 Metres East North East of Embley House
- WRENN ID
- patient-tallow-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1986
- Type
- Garden seat
- Address
- Cromwell's Seat 400 Metres East North East of Embley House, SO51 6DL
- OS grid reference
- SU 326 209
- Coordinates
- 50.98666, -1.53613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cromwell’s Seat is an early 19th-century garden seat situated 400 metres east-northeast of Embley House, within Embley Park. It marks the end of a long walk that extends from the front of the house into the adjacent woodland. The seat is semicircular and constructed of solid brick with stone dressings. It features a stone top and a brick back with a stone coping. The ends of the seat have stone console brackets on the inside edge. It is recorded that Florence Nightingale frequently used the seat.
Local climate
Cromwell's Seat 400 Metres East North East of Embley House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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