Verandah and Garden Ornaments at the Upper and Lower Zigzags is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Garden ornaments, verandah.
Verandah and Garden Ornaments at the Upper and Lower Zigzags
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-wicket-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Garden ornaments, verandah
- Address
- Verandah and Garden Ornaments at the Upper and Lower Zigzags, Maker-With-Rame
- OS grid reference
- SX 457 518
- Coordinates
- 50.34587, -4.16948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The verandah and garden ornaments at the upper and lower zigzags in Edgcumbe Country Park date from the early 19th century. They include a verandah that was part of a summer house, which is no longer standing, and various garden ornaments such as a pedestal, likely once for a statue of Flora, a seat, a water trough, and retaining walls.
The verandah is constructed from sandstone rubble and measures about 7 metres long, with stone steps on each side and buttressing. It is believed that a wooden summer house once stood on top of the verandah. To the northeast of the verandah is a plain limestone pedestal.
The seat features a rear wall and side walls made of coursed sandstone rubble, topped with an elliptical arch. It originally had a wooden seat at the back and stands about 1 metre deep and 2 metres high. The granite water trough has walls at the back adorned with five square panels that feature carved quatrefoils, along with two recessed panels with ogee heads on each side. These panels are likely made from reused materials.
The retaining walls for the zigzag paths are also built from rubble. The Upper Zigzags were mentioned in 1836 and are depicted on a map from 1756.
Local climate
Verandah and Garden Ornaments at the Upper and Lower Zigzags 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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