Garden Seat Approximately 25 Metres North of Blaise Castle House is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. Garden seat.
Garden Seat Approximately 25 Metres North of Blaise Castle House
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol North West MP: Darren Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1959
- Type
- Garden seat
- OS grid reference
- ST 561 787
- Coordinates
- 51.50625, -2.63259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This garden seat, located approximately 25 metres north of Blaise Castle House, was built in 1832 by C.R. Cockerell. It is made of limestone ashlar and features a pedimented wall with a large, keyed niche and an impost band. The seat was constructed at the end of Sir Samuel Astrey's double avenue of trees from around 1700 and originally included a seat within the niche.
Local climate
Garden Seat Approximately 25 Metres North of Blaise Castle House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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