Resting House in Japanese Garden at Garden House 70 Meters to Sout-South-East of House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. Resting house. 1 related planning application.

Resting House in Japanese Garden at Garden House 70 Meters to Sout-South-East of House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1984
Type
Resting house
Address
Resting House in Japanese Garden at Garden House 70 Meters to Sout-South-East of House, Church Lane, Cottered, SG9 9PZ
OS grid reference
TL 316 291
Coordinates
51.94502, -0.08615
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This resting house is located within the Japanese Garden at Garden House, approximately 70 metres to the south-south-east of the main house. It was built between 1923 and 1926, personally designed by the garden’s designer, S. Kusumoto, for Herbert Goode, a wealthy glass and china merchant who initiated the Japanese Garden in 1905. The structure is a timber-framed, single-storey, open-sided shelter facing north. It has low screens to the front and side, and a traditional roof structure built in stages using interwoven beams, a technique known as Aziro-Gumi. The floor is designed to resemble the shell of a tortoise, symbolizing good luck.

Local climate

Resting House in Japanese Garden at Garden House 70 Meters to Sout-South-East of House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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