Gothic Seat About 180 Metres West of Tyntesfield House is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 2002. Garden seat.

Gothic Seat About 180 Metres West of Tyntesfield House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 2002
Type
Garden seat
OS grid reference
ST 504 715
Coordinates
51.44073, -2.71444
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gothic Seat, located about 180 metres west of Tyntesfield House, is a garden seat dating from around 1865, possibly designed by John Norton. It is made of stone and features a frieze of quatrefoils at the front of the base. The back of the seat includes a frieze of pierced panels with cusped ogee tracery, with the center raised and displaying intersecting panel tracery. Large piers at the corners of the arms feature blind tracery and are topped with vases. Part of the back of the seat has fallen. This seat is a notable example of Victorian garden ornamentation within a grade II* garden and is one of several Gothic seats found in the garden at Tyntesfield Park.

Local climate

Gothic Seat About 180 Metres West of Tyntesfield House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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