Garden Houses and Retaining Walls to Terraced Gardens at Luton Hoo is a Grade I listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. Garden house, retaining wall. 1 related planning application.

Garden Houses and Retaining Walls to Terraced Gardens at Luton Hoo

WRENN ID
dim-solder-birch
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Garden house, retaining wall
Address
Garden Houses and Retaining Walls to Terraced Gardens at Luton Hoo, Hyde
OS grid reference
TL 104 184
Coordinates
51.85369, -0.39735
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden houses and retaining walls to the terraced gardens at Luton Hoo are part of a formal garden layout arranged on three levels. The lowest terrace features a central ornamental pool that includes a statue, along with two temple-style garden houses positioned at the far corners.

Local climate

Garden Houses and Retaining Walls to Terraced Gardens at Luton Hoo sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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