Seat, Woodland Garden, Manderston is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 February 1996. Garden seat.
Seat, Woodland Garden, Manderston
- WRENN ID
- errant-buttress-alder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1996
- Type
- Garden seat
- OS grid reference
- NT 812 542
- Coordinates
- 55.78135, -2.30057
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The garden seat at Manderston is likely from the 19th century, inspired by 17th-century designs. It is circular and made of stone, supported by four stone lions. The seat features a central shaft that is intricately carved above the seat, and below it, there is a polygonal shaft topped with a small pedestalled ball finial.
Local climate
Seat, Woodland Garden, Manderston receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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