Garden House and Alcove Seat Immediately North at Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1950. A Georgian Summer house, gazebo.
Garden House and Alcove Seat Immediately North at Rectory
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-courtyard-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1950
- Type
- Summer house, gazebo
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Garden House and Alcove Seat Immediately North at Rectory, Rectory Road, Stourport-On-Severn
- OS grid reference
- SO 802 710
- Coordinates
- 52.33711, -2.29156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden House and alcove seat, located immediately north of the Rectory in Areley Kings, is a small summer house or gazebo dating from the early 18th century. It features Flemish bond brickwork with burnt headers and a plain tiled roof. The structure is two storeys high and consists of a single bay with a coped gable. The gable contains a six-panelled doorway with a pedimented head, which is dated 1904 to commemorate the building's restoration. Above the doorway is a sash window with a segmentally arched brick head and a crest in the apex of the gable, situated above a string course. There is a stack on the side of the roof and an external staircase on the west side that provides access to the upper storey. Behind the garden house is an alcove seat that overlooks the River Severn. This alcove seat is made of red brick, plastered inside, and features a hemispherical segmental dome with tile cladding and a wide segmental arch at the front.
Local climate
Garden House and Alcove Seat Immediately North at Rectory 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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