Wall and Steps Attached to Laundry and Encircling the Rose Garden, Rockingham Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1987. A C11, C17, C18 Wall.
Wall and Steps Attached to Laundry and Encircling the Rose Garden, Rockingham Castle
- WRENN ID
- sombre-pewter-sepia
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1987
- Type
- Wall
- OS grid reference
- SP 866 912
- Coordinates
- 52.51241, -0.7239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall and steps attached to the south of the Laundry and encircling the rose garden at Rockingham Castle date mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries, though they are on the site of an 11th-century keep. The structure is made of squared coursed limestone, ironstone, and brick, topped with ashlar coping. A flight of stone steps is attached to the side of the retaining wall. The garden at Rockingham Castle is included in the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission County Register of Gardens at Grade II*.
Local climate
Wall and Steps Attached to Laundry and Encircling the Rose Garden, Rockingham Castle sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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