Retaining Walls, Steps and Fountain to East and South of Formal Garden at Broughton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1988. Garden feature.

Retaining Walls, Steps and Fountain to East and South of Formal Garden at Broughton Hall

WRENN ID
narrow-cellar-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1988
Type
Garden feature
OS grid reference
SD 943 508
Coordinates
53.95356, -2.088
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The retaining walls, steps, and fountain located to the east and south of the formal garden at Broughton Hall were constructed in 1855 by W A Nesfield. The low solid stone wall supports an earth bank and extends approximately 130 meters from the Garden Pavilion to a point west of the conservatory at the rear of the Hall. There are two flights of stone steps: a simple one at the western end and a double set that accommodates a fountain featuring a clam shell and dolphins. Urns are placed on a dais at regular intervals along the wall. This structure is part of the semi-formal setting of Broughton Hall and delineates the boundary between the formal and wilderness gardens.

Local climate

Retaining Walls, Steps and Fountain to East and South of Formal Garden at Broughton Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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