Garden Walls and Gateway Belonging to Aspley House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. Garden wall and gateway. 1 related planning application.
Garden Walls and Gateway Belonging to Aspley House
- WRENN ID
- standing-portal-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1952
- Type
- Garden wall and gateway
- Address
- Garden Walls and Gateway Belonging to Aspley House, Church Street, Aspley Guise, MK17 8HE
- OS grid reference
- SP 942 361
- Coordinates
- 52.0156, -0.62759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls and gateway are mid-18th century and belong to Aspley House. The red brick walls border the road for approximately 60 metres, turning at the north end to continue for a further 80 metres. They reach a maximum height of around 3 metres. Stone coped rectangular piers mark the corners. The upper half of the wall is recessed, with pilaster strips projecting to align with the lower part. A gateway is positioned in the centre of the section bordering the road, divided into three bays by pilaster strips. The central bay features a small round-headed archway with a 20th-century wrought iron gate; the outer bays have smaller, round-arched recessed panels. The outer piers have moulded stone cornices and ball finials. Walls flanking the gateway rise to full height in three stages, with short stretches of sloping wall between.
Local climate
Garden Walls and Gateway Belonging to Aspley House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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