Stairway in the Italian Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Stairway, statues.
Stairway in the Italian Garden
- WRENN ID
- high-parapet-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Stairway, statues
- Address
- Stairway in the Italian Garden, Maker-With-Rame
- OS grid reference
- SX 454 532
- Coordinates
- 50.35854, -4.17414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stairway in the Italian Garden at Edgcumbe Country Park is a mid-19th century structure designed in the 16th century Florentine style. It features a triumphal staircase with five granite steps leading to a platform. This platform is backed by a rendered wall that has a central alcove containing a Roman bust, flanked by grey marble panels. Balustraded stairs rise to the left and right, returning to an upper platform that supports free-standing classical statues made from patent artificial stone. The statues include the Medici Venus, the Apollo Belvedere, and Bacchus.
Local climate
Stairway in the Italian Garden sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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