Garden Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings at Kempston Bury is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1962. Garden walls. 3 related planning applications.
Garden Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings at Kempston Bury
- WRENN ID
- eastward-footing-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1962
- Type
- Garden walls
- Address
- Garden Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings at Kempston Bury, Cemetery Road, MK43 8RD
- OS grid reference
- TL 016 473
- Coordinates
- 52.11483, -0.51745
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls, piers, gates, and railings at Kempston Bury date from the 18th century and enclose a rectangular garden located southeast of the current house. The structure features red brick walls and piers with stone dressings. The south elevation includes two piers with central rusticated pilaster strips, stone volutes, and capping. The right-hand pier is topped with a stone spread eagle, while the left-hand eagle is now missing. To the right, two pilasters flank what appears to be a blocked doorway. The east elevation has four piers with stone copings and ball finials, along with wrought iron railings and gates in the center. The north elevation features two rusticated piers with stone copings.
Local climate
Garden Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings at Kempston Bury sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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