Balustraded Steps and Retaining Walls in Front of Brownber Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Steps and walls.
Balustraded Steps and Retaining Walls in Front of Brownber Hall
- WRENN ID
- crooked-keep-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- Steps and walls
- Address
- Balustraded Steps and Retaining Walls in Front of Brownber Hall, Ravenstonedale, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 704 057
- Coordinates
- 54.44594, -2.45656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The balustraded steps and retaining walls in front of Brownber Hall are likely from the early 19th century. They are constructed from snecked rubble with dressed stone balusters, piers, and copings. The design features a symmetrical layout with serpentine end walls and a central imperial staircase leading down. The turned balusters are approximately 18 inches high and have chamfered copings. The square piers at both ends are topped with pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Balustraded Steps and Retaining Walls in Front of Brownber Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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