Walled garden and attached glasshouse at Ombersley Court is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 2017. Walled garden, glasshouse.
Walled garden and attached glasshouse at Ombersley Court
- WRENN ID
- watchful-quartz-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham MP: Nigel Huddleston (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 2017
- Type
- Walled garden, glasshouse
- Address
- Walled garden and attached glasshouse at Ombersley Court, Droitwich, Worcestershire
- OS grid reference
- SO 841 635
- Coordinates
- 52.26956, -2.23369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The site comprises a walled kitchen garden with potting sheds and an attached glasshouse, constructed in 1812 to the designs of John Webb. The walled garden is constructed of brick in English Garden Wall Bond, with stone piers at regular intervals, some potentially serving as chimney flues for partially heated walls. The walls are capped with coping stones and measure roughly 110 metres by 75 metres. Access is provided via an opening on the east elevation, leading to a further enclosed area in the south portion, with additional access points through timber doors with segmental arches. A sunken planting area, originally covered by a glasshouse, is located on the north elevation. The south wall is taller than the others and is ramped at both the western and eastern ends.
Attached to the south wall is a long range with a lean-to slate roof, featuring individual potting sheds with casement windows at the eastern end and an open section supported by timber posts at the western end. Shuttered openings above this range provide access to the glasshouse situated immediately behind the south wall. This glasshouse is a large structure, approximately 40 metres in length, positioned on the south side of the wall to maximize sunlight exposure. The glasshouse has a western entrance with shallow steps, an ashlar plinth capped with coping stones, and retains small-paned windows on its south elevation. Iron rafters support purlins that once held glazing bars, and the north elevation features brick arcades with a stone plinth and is a further heated wall with chimney flues.
A slip garden, used for growing hardier produce, is situated to the east of the main walled garden and features lower brick walls. The walled garden is located 90 metres north-west of Ombersley House (Grade I) and is orientated north-east to south-west, with the glasshouse facing lawns to the south. The remains of an iron-framed glasshouse are also present.
Local climate
Walled garden and attached glasshouse at Ombersley Court receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% 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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