Rustic Cave at South Entrance to Ladye Park is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1981. Grotto.

Rustic Cave at South Entrance to Ladye Park

WRENN ID
tired-thatch-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 July 1981
Type
Grotto
Address
Rustic Cave at South Entrance to Ladye Park, Liskeard
OS grid reference
SX 238 647
Coordinates
50.45594, -4.483
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The rustic cave at the south entrance to Ladye Park is a mid-19th century grotto featuring a waterfall. It is constructed from local stone rubble and has a roughly shouldered and lintelled flat-headed arch that spans an ornamental waterfall.

Local climate

Rustic Cave at South Entrance to Ladye Park sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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