The Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1983. House.
The Gardens
- WRENN ID
- third-hammer-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Gardens, Diddington
- OS grid reference
- TL 191 657
- Coordinates
- 52.2771, -0.25526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gardens is a mid-19th century house built from gault brick. It features a slate roof with bracketed eaves and end stacks that have projecting capping. The building stands two storeys tall and has a gabled centre bay that includes a framed stone plaque. This bay is flanked by two hung sash windows with glazing bars that are flush with the eaves. On the ground floor, there are two similar windows and a central gabled porch.
Local climate
The Gardens 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% 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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