The Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. House.
The Garden House
- WRENN ID
- patient-plinth-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Garden House, London Road, Tring
- OS grid reference
- SP 928 114
- Coordinates
- 51.79419, -0.6553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden House is a house dating from the 17th century for the west range and the early 19th century for the east range. It features a timber frame with roughcast on a rendered sill for the west range, while the east range has stucco on brickwork. Both ranges have old red tile roofs, with the west range having a steeper pitch. The house is set back from the road within a park boundary wall, with its front now facing east.
The building consists of two parallel ranges side-by-side. The older west range has a three-cell internal chimney plan, with the chimney located one-third from the south end. There are four-light leaded flush casement windows on each floor of the north gable. A large chimney is situated in the valley between the two ranges at the north end, which may have originally been a rear-wall chimney for the older range.
The east front features three windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, along with a central door. The windows are mullioned leaded casement types with moulded labels, arranged as three-light, two-light, and three-light on the first floor, and four-light on each side of the door, with pointed heads above the transom. The entrance door is a five-panel design with a glazed and traceried top panel, topped by a Gothick rectangular fanlight, all within a stucco surround.
Local climate
The Garden House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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