Walled Kitchen Garden to Belvoir Castle, Immediately South of the Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1979. A C19 Walled garden.
Walled Kitchen Garden to Belvoir Castle, Immediately South of the Garden House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-merlon-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1979
- Type
- Walled garden
- OS grid reference
- SK 824 336
- Coordinates
- 52.89387, -0.77587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walled kitchen garden at Belvoir Castle, located immediately south of The Garden House, dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick with limestone embellishments and features a rectangular layout with brick cross walls. At intervals, there are brick piers topped with limestone ogee finials, although many of these finials are missing. The garden has four main entrances, each marked by a limestone arch situated between polygonal turrets, which also have ogee finials. The entrance arches and piers display thin Gothick decoration.
Local climate
Walled Kitchen Garden to Belvoir Castle, Immediately South of the Garden House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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