Garden Walls, Summer House, Gate Piers, Gates and Steps at Nevill Holt Hall Preparatory School and Font House is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Garden feature, summer house.

Garden Walls, Summer House, Gate Piers, Gates and Steps at Nevill Holt Hall Preparatory School and Font House

WRENN ID
strange-moat-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Harborough
Constituency
Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1985
Type
Garden feature, summer house
OS grid reference
SP 815 937
Coordinates
52.53591, -0.799
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls, summer house, gate piers, gates, and steps at Nevill Holt Hall Preparatory School and Font House date from the 18th and 19th centuries. They are constructed from red brick, coursed rubble stone, dressed stone, wrought iron, and wood. The 18th-century red brick walls, which have a coursed rubble stone plinth, enclose the gardens and are partially topped with tiles. At intervals, there are openwork stone crestings over gateways featuring stone arches, and the walls stand approximately 3 meters high.

Aligned with the Dining Room of the school, there is a gateway flanked by brick piers topped with stone urns. A fine wrought iron gate with side panels is located here. Along Paddock Lane, a raised walkway features a central flight of stone steps, with pedestals and urns on either side, and a sundial pedestal at the top. Facing Paddock Lane, there is a coursed rubble stone retaining wall with stone coping and buttresses. The wall at the top of the avenue ends in a rusticated stone pier topped with a ball, and nearby is a stone gateway in the wall. There are a few additional openings around the perimeter. Inside the small walled garden, there is a painted wooden open summer house that projects from the wall, featuring fluted columns at the front corners and a pediment above.

Local climate

Garden Walls, Summer House, Gate Piers, Gates and Steps at Nevill Holt Hall Preparatory School and Font House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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