Garden Feature at South End of South Terrace of Prideaux Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Garden feature.

Garden Feature at South End of South Terrace of Prideaux Place

WRENN ID
brooding-pillar-heath
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1988
Type
Garden feature
Address
Garden Feature at South End of South Terrace of Prideaux Place, Padstow
OS grid reference
SW 913 754
Coordinates
50.54154, -4.94559
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden feature at the south end of the south terrace of Prideaux Place, built in 1740 by Edmund Prideaux, is a notable garden seat. Constructed from vermiculated and dressed stone ashlar, it has side walls made of rendered brick. The central garden seat resembles a portal, featuring a vermiculated round arch with imposts, keyblocks, and a moulded cornice at the top of its pediment. This portal is flanked by low quadrant walls, each containing four shallow niches, and these walls terminate in square-on-plan piers made of stone rubble with rendered surfaces. The piers have moulded bases and caps, topped with vase-capped urns. Inside the 'portico' is an inscription noting that the marbles, which include inscriptions and portable shrines from the first century AD, were brought back from Rome by Edmund Prideaux in 1740.

Local climate

Garden Feature at South End of South Terrace 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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