Garden Terrace in Front of Higham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Garden terrace.
Garden Terrace in Front of Higham Hall
- WRENN ID
- distant-postern-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden terrace
- Address
- Garden Terrace in Front of Higham Hall, General, Setmurthy, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 185 315
- Coordinates
- 54.67232, -3.26406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden Terrace in front of Higham Hall is a mid-19th century structure made of calciferous sandstone ashlar. It features a low wall with a series of square panelled piers topped with ball finials, and open balustrades beneath a moulded coping. At each end of the terrace, there are serpentine-shaped stone seats with blind balusters. This terrace is listed for its group value with Higham Hall.
Local climate
Garden Terrace in Front of Higham Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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