Garden House to Rear of 21 Larchwood is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1993. A C19 Summer house.

Garden House to Rear of 21 Larchwood

WRENN ID
dreaming-sentry-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Constituency
Newcastle-under-Lyme MP: Adam Jogee (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 July 1993
Type
Summer house
Address
Garden House to Rear of 21 Larchwood, Keele
OS grid reference
SJ 813 449
Coordinates
53.00117, -2.27884
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden house located at the rear of 21 Larchwood is a summer house built around the 1870s. It features a timber frame set on a coursed ashlar base and has a gabled tile roof. The structure consists of a single chamber and has deeply overhanging eaves supported by shaped brackets at the entrance front. A central round-headed doorway is flanked by similar windows, all adorned with shaped pendant wooden keyblocks. This building is particularly notable for its complete set of Minton & Hollins decorative tiles that remain intact on the internal walls, including a medallion on the rear wall. It is a rare example of a fully tiled summerhouse, although the attribution of its design to John Ruskin has not been confirmed.

Local climate

Garden House to Rear of 21 Larchwood 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 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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