Summer House and Garden Wall West and South of Higham Dykes is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1969. Garden structure, garden wall.
Summer House and Garden Wall West and South of Higham Dykes
- WRENN ID
- south-marble-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1969
- Type
- Garden structure, garden wall
- Address
- Summer House and Garden Wall West and South of Higham Dykes, Ponteland
- OS grid reference
- NZ 133 752
- Coordinates
- 55.0713, -1.79224
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The summer house and garden wall, located west and south of Higham Dykes, date from the early 18th century. They are constructed of brick in English Garden Wall Bond and feature a graduated Lakeland slate roof.
The summer house is two storeys tall, with a single square bay. It has a segment-headed doorway leading to a potting shed on the ground floor, and outside stone steps that lead to a panelled door on the first floor. There is a string course, and the pyramidal roof has a square stack rising from the north-west corner. The first floor is fitted with 12-pane sash windows on the other sides.
The garden wall was originally about 9 feet high but was later raised using different brick and topped with flat coping.
Local climate
Summer House and Garden Wall West and South of Higham Dykes receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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