Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1994. Garden house.
Garden House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-jamb-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1994
- Type
- Garden house
- Address
- Garden House, Cliff Park, Harwich
- OS grid reference
- TM 258 316
- Coordinates
- 51.93792, 1.28359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden House is a mid-19th century garden house located in Harwich. It is constructed of clinker, likely using brick wasters, and features a thatched roof. The building is octagonal and single-storey, topped with a conical thatched roof that has a copper weathering cover and a lead finial. The northeast face includes an ogee-headed door frame with a 20th-century door. Two adjoining faces have ogee-headed windows that are currently infilled with painted boards.
Local climate
Garden House 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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