Walls, Steps and Fountain to South and West of the Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1978. Wall, steps, fountain.
Walls, Steps and Fountain to South and West of the Hall
- WRENN ID
- kindled-transept-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1978
- Type
- Wall, steps, fountain
- Address
- Walls, Steps and Fountain to South and West of the Hall, the Avenue, Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 232 754
- Coordinates
- 53.27563, -1.65318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls, steps, and fountain located to the south and west of The Hall date from the 19th century and are constructed from coursed squared stone with ashlar. The low retaining wall features slab copings and connects three sets of steps that have 17th-century style banded balustrades. Each flight of steps is adorned with urns on pedestals at both the top and bottom, each urn having gadrooned tops and bases. Additional urns on pedestals are placed at regular intervals along the walls between the steps. The central steps lead down to another wall that curves outward in a semi-circle at the center, with large scrolled brackets supporting each corner of this wall. On the south side of the wall, there is a rocky tufa bank with a shell fountain that feeds into the polygonal pond below. The eastern flight of steps leads up to the front door of The Hall, while the western flight leads to the north lawn.
Local climate
Walls, Steps and Fountain to South and West of the Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 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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