Large Gothic Seat About 180 Metres West Northwest 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.
Large Gothic Seat About 180 Metres West Northwest of Tyntesfield House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-lancet-weasel
- 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
- 51.44118, -2.71438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This large Gothic seat, located about 180 metres west northwest of Tyntesfield House, dates from around 1865 and is possibly designed by John Norton. Made of stone, the seat has a semi-circular shape and features four tall piers with cusped pointed arch panels, each topped with vases. Between the piers, the back of the seat displays a frieze of pierced quatrefoils with moulded coping. The base is raised and paved. This seat is a notable example of Victorian garden ornamentation, situated in a grade II* garden, and is the largest of several Gothic seats found in the garden at Tyntesfield.
Local climate
Large Gothic Seat About 180 Metres West Northwest 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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