Garden House, Turvey Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Garden house.
Garden House, Turvey Abbey
- WRENN ID
- hushed-pinnacle-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Garden house
- Address
- Garden House, Turvey Abbey, High Street, MK43 8DE
- OS grid reference
- SP 947 522
- Coordinates
- 52.16041, -0.61655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden House at Turvey Abbey is a single-storey building dating from 1829, as indicated by the inscription on its battlements. Constructed from coursed limestone rubble, it features a battlemented parapet. Each side of the building has one window, which consists of one and two-light pointed arched casements with stone mullions, moulded surrounds, and drip moulds above.
Local climate
Garden House, Turvey Abbey 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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