Garden Urn at Beechwood Park School (40 Metres to South East of Main Entrance) is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Garden urn. 1 related planning application.

Garden Urn at Beechwood Park School (40 Metres to South East of Main Entrance)

WRENN ID
high-vestry-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1987
Type
Garden urn
Address
Garden Urn at Beechwood Park School (40 Metres to South East of Main Entrance), AL3 8AW
OS grid reference
TL 045 144
Coordinates
51.81896, -0.4842
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This garden urn, located approximately 40 meters southeast of the main entrance to Beechwood Park School, dates from around 1860. It is stamped with the name 'J M Blashfield/Millwall & Paddington/London'. The urn is made of light buff terracotta and is set on a re-used 18th-century pedestal made of Portland stone.

Local climate

Garden Urn at Beechwood Park School (40 Metres to South East of Main Entrance) 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 78% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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