Urn South of South Walk is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Garden ornament.
Urn South of South Walk
- WRENN ID
- half-rubble-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Garden ornament
- Address
- Urn South of South Walk, Old Warden
- OS grid reference
- TL 149 446
- Coordinates
- 52.08789, -0.32323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The urn south of South Walk is a 19th-century garden ornament made of cast iron, standing approximately 2 meters high on a plinth. It is designed in a neo-classical style, featuring decorative foliate bands around the rim, neck, and base, along with foliate handles. The urn displays a relief scene that depicts night, featuring a winged female figure carrying two sleeping putti, accompanied by a flying owl.
Local climate
Urn South of South Walk 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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