Former Stables, Walls of Adjoining Walled Garden and Vaulted Alcove at Putteridge Bury is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Stables, walled garden, alcove.
Former Stables, Walls of Adjoining Walled Garden and Vaulted Alcove at Putteridge Bury
- WRENN ID
- woven-tracery-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Stables, walled garden, alcove
- OS grid reference
- TL 118 247
- Coordinates
- 51.91027, -0.37577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former stables, walls of the adjoining walled garden, and vaulted alcove at Putteridge Bury date from the 18th century or early 19th century, with renovations to the stables around 1908 when the house was rebuilt by Ernest George and Alfred Yeates. The buildings are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with some stone copings and roofs made of stone slabs. There is a painted wooden clock turret atop the structure.
This irregular group of single-storey buildings is located to the west of the service block and features steep stone slab roofs and red brick chimneys with round-headed recesses. The south part has round-headed recessed windows and a shaped gable parapet, along with an off-centre tall octagonal wooden turret that has an arcaded design, a cubical clock stage, and an open octagonal arcaded cupola topped with a bell and iron vane, all painted in black and white.
The large rectangular garden is enclosed by walls that rise to 3 meters high, reaching 4 meters at the west end of the north side. Central gate piers are located at the west end. The west wall extends south and includes a semi-circular brick alcove with a vaulted 4-centred hemi-cycle head, providing space for seating. This section of the wall forms the western end of a terrace walk and features stucco pilasters at each end that rise higher than the stone coping. There are small gateways with cast iron gates near the southeast corner, and a two-bay open ironwork screen extends south at this corner, supported by square openwork cast iron pylons on stone bases linked to the stone side parapets of a flight of steps.
Local climate
Former Stables, Walls of Adjoining Walled Garden and Vaulted Alcove at Putteridge Bury 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 80% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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