Garden Seat with Portico in Grounds to East of the Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. Garden seat.
Garden Seat with Portico in Grounds to East of the Hall
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1974
- Type
- Garden seat
- Address
- Garden Seat with Portico in Grounds to East of the Hall, Holt Road, Bradford-On-Avon
- OS grid reference
- ST 829 608
- Coordinates
- 51.34613, -2.24606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden seat with portico, dating from the 18th century, is located in the grounds to the east of the Hall. It may have been repositioned against a rocky outcrop. The portico is made of ashlar stone with coursed rubble at the rear and features a stone slab roof. It includes an entablature and a plain pediment supported by four Tuscan columns and two pilasters. At the apex of the pediment is a carved stone eagle, with carved stone acorns on either side. The side walls of the portico have two Tudor style windows. At the rear, there are 19th century carved blocks, one depicting a pelican in her piety and the other featuring stiff-leaf foliage. The Hall is part of a group that includes its terraces, walls, gatepiers, balustrades, two garden seats, and the wall surrounding the grounds.
Local climate
Garden Seat with Portico in Grounds to East of the Hall receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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