Landing Steps from Mount Wise Ward is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Steps, pavilion.
Landing Steps from Mount Wise Ward
- WRENN ID
- strange-cellar-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Steps, pavilion
- Address
- Landing Steps from Mount Wise Ward, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 456 540
- Coordinates
- 50.36597, -4.17222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The landing steps from Mount Wise Ward in Plymouth are a double flight of steps leading to a pavilion and doorway through a defensive wall. They were built in 1820, with a keystone dated 1847. The structure features Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings, and a wooden frame weatherboarded pavilion topped with a dry slate hipped roof. The two curved flights of steps ascend to a landing where the pavilion sits on a tall battered stone base, positioned in front of a wide doorway that is spanned by an elliptical arch through a battered rubble wall. There is also a straight flight of steps on the opposite side of the doorway, leading to Richmond Walk. This structure is part of a group of buildings that were detached from the naval base and provided accommodation for officers.
Local climate
Landing Steps from Mount Wise Ward 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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