Four Hermes in Gardens at Thornbridge Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1985. A C19 Statue.

Four Hermes in Gardens at Thornbridge Hall

WRENN ID
leaning-nave-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 March 1985
Type
Statue
Address
Four Hermes in Gardens at Thornbridge Hall, Longstone Lane, Great Longstone, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 199 709
Coordinates
53.23554, -1.703
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Four Hermes in the gardens at Thornbridge Hall are late 19th-century stone sculptures. They consist of four allegorical figures, each placed on square pedestals that sit on a stepped base. The pedestals feature reliefs that depict the four seasons represented by the statues. Each statue is inscribed in Greek with the names of spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

Local climate

Four Hermes in Gardens at Thornbridge Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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