Terrace Wall and Steps in Front of the Orangery is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Terrace wall.

Terrace Wall and Steps in Front of the Orangery

WRENN ID
ragged-tower-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1983
Type
Terrace wall
Address
Terrace Wall and Steps in Front of the Orangery, Kettleshulme and Lyme Handley, Cheshire East
OS grid reference
SJ 965 823
Coordinates
53.33808, -2.05371
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The terrace wall and steps in front of the Orangery were built around 1815 by Lewis Wyatt for Sir Thomas Legh. The structure is made of coursed, squared, buff sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings. It features raking square pilasters on plinths at the corners and at intervals along the wall. A projecting moulded cornice sits above a stone band and supports flat chamfered capstones on both the wall and the pilasters. In the center of the wall, there is a flight of 12 steps with fine grey sandstone treads set on buff sandstone, leading towards the door of the Orangery.

Local climate

Terrace Wall and Steps in Front of the Orangery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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