Kitchen Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1977. Garden walls.
Kitchen Garden Walls
- WRENN ID
- high-column-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1977
- Type
- Garden walls
- Address
- Kitchen Garden Walls, Castle Gardens, Alnwick
- OS grid reference
- NU 189 133
- Coordinates
- 55.41377, -1.70194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kitchen Garden Walls, dating from the 18th century, are located in the Castle Gardens. They stand about 10 to 12 feet high and stretch approximately 500 feet from the Gardener's Cottage to the north wall of the kitchen garden, returning for about 250 feet at the east end. The walls are constructed of coursed squared rubble on the outside and are lined with brick on the inside. The north wall was formerly heated. On the north side, there is a farmer's crenellated boiler house featuring a merlon opening to the north and an ogee doorway to the east. At the east end, two low projecting towers have segmental arches on the ground floor, with six gabled sheds situated between them. In the center of the north wall, there are taller quadrants leading to a former conservatory, which includes a central archway. Near the Gardener's Cottage on the west side, there is an ogee-headed entrance to the garden.
Local climate
Kitchen Garden Walls receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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