Listed Building record MDR25056 - Five Flights of Steps Between Terraces, Melbourne Hall Gardens, Church Close, Melbourne

Five flights of steps between terraces, Melbourne Hall Gardens, Church Close, Melbourne, built c1704. From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE CHURCH CLOSE 6/68 (East Side) 10.11.67 Five Flights of Steps between terraces at Melbourne Hall Gardens GV I Five flights of steps. c1704 with later urns. Erected as part of a French style garden designed by Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall. Work carried out by William Cooke of Walcot. Stone. Two flights of steps to either side of terrace and one central flight. Each flight has ten steps with moulded nosings and low retaining walls to either side terminating in low square piers to either end. The piers are now topped by later gadrooned urns. Each top step is wide and has diamond patterned paving. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I. See item 6/63 for sources. Listing NGR: SK3908224989.' (1)