Walled Garden to North of Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1991. Garden wall.
Walled Garden to North of Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-stair-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1991
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Walled Garden to North of Garden Cottage, Church Lane, Pavenham
- OS grid reference
- SP 990 559
- Coordinates
- 52.19296, -0.55282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walled garden located to the north of Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed structure from the early to mid-19th century, with some features from the mid to late 19th century. The garden wall is constructed of red brick, primarily in English bond, with the upper section in Flemish bond. Attached to the wall are bothies made of coursed rubblestone and brick, topped with Welsh slate roofs, as well as a greenhouse range made of glass set on a brick dwarf wall.
The wall encloses a nearly triangular garden, with curved corners and entrances situated near these corners, including two at the south-west corner. The eastern half of the northern wall features lean-to bothies on the outer side and a lean-to greenhouse range on the inner side. The wall stands approximately 3.5 meters tall, rising to about 4 meters above the bothies. On the outer side, there is an offset below the thinner top section, along with evenly spaced raked buttresses set at intervals of about 3 meters. The wall is capped with slightly oversailing flat coping made of large blue bricks. The entrances feature keyed flat brick arches and board doors with decorative iron hinges, although most of the doors are either collapsed or missing.
The greenhouse range is in a state of disrepair but still retains its glazing bars and an iron vent-opening mechanism, with a manufacturer's plate that reads "W T Revitt, Olney." The bothies are also very derelict, featuring small-pane wooden casement windows with flat arches, iron-framed skylights, an entrance from the garden, board doors, and a former privy. A small brick addition at the west end has single-light windows with decorative, honeycomb-style metal glazing bars, similar to the windows of the nearby Garden Cottage, which dates to 1863.
Local climate
Walled Garden to North of Garden Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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