Gazebo Within the Garden of Former Amwell House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A C18 Garden structure.

Gazebo Within the Garden of Former Amwell House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1950
Type
Garden structure
Address
Gazebo Within the Garden of Former Amwell House, Between Numbers 28 and 34, Scotts Road, Ware, SG12 9JQ
OS grid reference
TL 356 138
Coordinates
51.80664, -0.03351
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gazebo within the garden of the former Amwell House is a Grade II* listed structure, built around 1768 by John Scott, the Quaker poet. It was restored in 1990 and is situated on the summit of a hillside above Scott's garden, constructed above a grotto. The gazebo has a single-storey, octagonal plan with a high brick plinth and features two flights of flint steps leading to the entrance, which includes a half-glazed door topped by a pointed fanlight with Gothic tracery. The remaining walls have three flush-set Gothic arched casement windows with tracery, alternating with flint-faced panels. It is topped with an old tiled roof and has a moulded wood cornice. Scott referred to it as his "airy octagon," from which he enjoyed a panoramic view stretching from Hertford, across Ware to Great Amwell, a theme explored in his long poem "Amwell."

Local climate

Gazebo Within the Garden of Former Amwell House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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