Wall with Steps and Urns Attached to North of Mount Edgcumbe House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Garden terrace.
Wall with Steps and Urns Attached to North of Mount Edgcumbe House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-garret-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Garden terrace
- OS grid reference
- SX 453 527
- Coordinates
- 50.35445, -4.17589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall with steps and urns attached to the north of Mount Edgcumbe House is a Grade II listed structure from the early 19th century. It features a granite ashlar wall that stands about one metre high and extends approximately 36 metres in an east/west direction, returning and connecting to Mount Edgcumbe House to the northwest. The wall is topped with a coping and includes five urns set on pedestals: one urn is located to the east, two to the west, and two are centrally placed on either side of a flight of six steps. Additionally, there is one more urn positioned to the northwest.
Local climate
Wall with Steps and Urns Attached to North of Mount Edgcumbe House 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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