Garden Walls, Gates and Urns, South of Woodlands, Thornbridge Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. Garden walls and gates.
Garden Walls, Gates and Urns, South of Woodlands, Thornbridge Hall
- WRENN ID
- patient-soffit-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1984
- Type
- Garden walls and gates
- Address
- Garden Walls, Gates and Urns, South of Woodlands, Thornbridge Hall, Longstone Lane, Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 197 709
- Coordinates
- 53.23554, -1.70575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls, gates, and urns located south of Woodlands at Thornbridge Hall were built around 1903. They are constructed from limestone rubble with gritstone dressings and wrought iron elements. The entrance features plain square stone piers on either side, each topped with urn finials that are fluted at the base and adorned with foliage swags and horseshoe motifs. The central double gates have arrowheads at the base, vertical bars above, and scroll decorations on the sides and center, with curling scrolls at the top. Fixed gates on either side match this style.
To the west, there is a curved and stepped rubble wall with moulded copings extending southward. To the east, a similar wall curves around the garden to the north and includes a Tudor-style gateway located approximately 6 meters to the north. This gateway features a four-centre arch incised into the lintel and moulded jambs, topped with stepped parapets.
Directly north of the gates, low attached walls lead to a short flight of steps, with short rubble piers on either side topped by large ball finials. Further north, there is a line of three pairs of urns along the drive, each resting on a plain pier. The urns have elaborate fluted and scrolled bases, fluted sides decorated with figure scenes, and bell-like lids topped with flame finials.
Local climate
Garden Walls, Gates and Urns, South of Woodlands, 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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