Terraces and Sunken Garden to North of Prideaux Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Garden, terrace.
Terraces and Sunken Garden to North of Prideaux Place
- WRENN ID
- north-gable-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- Garden, terrace
- Address
- Terraces and Sunken Garden to North of Prideaux Place, Padstow
- OS grid reference
- SW 913 756
- Coordinates
- 50.54371, -4.94634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The terraces and sunken garden to the north of Prideaux Place in Padstow date from around the mid-19th century. The garden features retaining walls and a series of stone steps leading down to a sunken area that includes a pond with a quatrefoil shape at its center. There are four flights of stone steps, each flanked by low walls, with the stone bases acting as newels that were originally topped with classical urns, of which at least two still remain. To the north, there is a low stone rubble retaining wall, while the pond to the south is bordered by low stone walls that have a moulded coping. The garden is currently overgrown and was originally designed to include a conservatory.
Local climate
Terraces and Sunken Garden to North of Prideaux Place 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% 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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