The Conservative Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1967. Greenhouse.
The Conservative Wall
- WRENN ID
- rough-timber-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1967
- Type
- Greenhouse
- Address
- The Conservative Wall, Chatsworth, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 261 702
- Coordinates
- 53.22848, -1.61003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Conservative Wall is a greenhouse built around 1832 as a forcing wall by Paxton and Robertson, later converted into a greenhouse between 1848 and 1850 by Paxton. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar, timber, and glass, measuring 331 feet long and 7 feet wide, and is stepped up the hillside, divided into eleven units. The north side features an ashlar wall without openings, while the south side has a coped ashlar plinth topped with a timber and glass superstructure. Each unit has four vertical glazing bars, and there is a decorative valance and parapet. The entrance area is taller and has five units on either side. It includes a flight of stone steps leading up to a tall round-arched entrance with a traceried fanlight. The Gardens and Park surrounding the structure are listed on the Gardens Register at Grade I.
Local climate
The Conservative Wall receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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