Lord Nelson's Seat in Nelson's Garden is a Grade II* listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 June 1952. Loggia.
Lord Nelson's Seat in Nelson's Garden
- WRENN ID
- mired-quartz-thistle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1952
- Type
- Loggia
- Address
- Lord Nelson's Seat in Nelson's Garden, Monmouth
- OS grid reference
- SO 507 127
- Coordinates
- 51.81102, -2.7154
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lord Nelson's Seat in Nelson's Garden is a Grade II* listed timber loggia that backs onto a brick wall and features wrought iron railings, likely topped with a lead roof. It has a small raised tetrastyle Corinthian portico with a panelled cornice decorated with concave reflectors, which were supposedly designed to capture moonlight. The roof is surrounded by a railed parapet supported by small turned balusters, although the decorative vases that were illustrated in 1860 are no longer present. The front of the loggia is enclosed by a wrought iron railing adorned with four large decorative roundels, with additional railings along the ramps and sides. Inside, there is a bench that incorporates an 18th-century chair, believed to have been used by Lord Nelson during his visit to Monmouth on August 19, 1802. This bench bears a tablet, last replaced in 1956, inscribed with 'Lord Nelson's Seat, August XIX MDCCCII'.
Local climate
Lord Nelson's Seat in Nelson's Garden receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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