The Garden House and Villa Fiore is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Villa. 1 related planning application.
The Garden House and Villa Fiore
- WRENN ID
- idle-latch-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- The Garden House and Villa Fiore, Great Witley, WR6 6JT
- OS grid reference
- SO 767 650
- Coordinates
- 52.28315, -2.34216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century former gardeners’ house and villa, originally part of Whitley Court. It has been divided into two separate buildings: Villa Fiore to the east and the Garden House to the west. The buildings are constructed of rendered red brick with low-pitched hipped slate roofs.
The Garden House and Villa Fiore form an Italianate garden villa with a long, straight range attached to the east, aligned east-west. The villa is two storeys high and features a string course and bracketed cornice. A symmetrical, forward-gabled section breaks the front, with keyed semi-circular arched windows with bracketed sills arranged in a pattern of two, two, three, two, two on the first floor. The ground floor has three windows to the outer bays and a three-window canted bay in the centre. The main entrance is recessed and located to the left of the centre, featuring a partly glazed door and a plain fanlight. Decorative shafts are found on the chimneys.
The lower, straight range is also two storeys high, with a string course and bracketed cornice, along with pilasters to the first floor. It has thirteen bays and semi-circular arched windows on the first floor. Ground-floor windows are larger, with cambered heads and two-light semi-circular headed casements. A doorway is present in the penultimate eastern bay.
Local climate
The Garden House and Villa Fiore receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
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