Garden Walls and Garden Shed Adjoining 17 Metres North North East of Kitchen Yard is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Garden shed.

Garden Walls and Garden Shed Adjoining 17 Metres North North East of Kitchen Yard

WRENN ID
forbidden-ember-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 April 1985
Type
Garden shed
OS grid reference
TL 477 188
Coordinates
51.84891, 0.143
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls and garden shed, located 17 meters north-north-east of the kitchen yard in Thorley village, date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The older west and north walls form part of an enclosed garden, utilizing the former moat for the east side. The small timber-framed, weatherboarded building from the 17th or 18th century uses the west wall as its eastern side. The walls are made of red brick and feature sloping buttresses on the south face of the north wall, along with projecting pilasters on the east face of the west wall. The brick-on-edge copings enhance the structure. The shed has a gabled roof covered with old red tiles and a clasped purlin structure, supported by unjowled posts and re-used rafters. The walls include a red brick plinth, dark weatherboarding, and a ventilation gap below the wall plate, which is protected by horizontal battens.

Local climate

Garden Walls and Garden Shed Adjoining 17 Metres North North East of Kitchen Yard sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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