The Drip Stone is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Grotto.
The Drip Stone
- WRENN ID
- kindled-sandstone-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Grotto
- Address
- The Drip Stone, Maker-With-Rame
- OS grid reference
- SX 455 528
- Coordinates
- 50.35488, -4.17257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Drip Stone is an 18th-century grotto located in Maker-with-Rame within Edgcumbe Country Park. It is constructed from large, roughly hewn blocks of granite and slatestone, set without mortar to create a round arch featuring a large keystone. Inside, there is a granite basin that receives water from the rear. The grotto measures approximately 2 metres deep and about 3 metres wide at the front, serving as a rustic picturesque feature in the park.
Local climate
The Drip Stone 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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