Walls and Iron Gates of Walled Garden at Offley Place to North West of House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Walled garden.
Walls and Iron Gates of Walled Garden at Offley Place to North West of House
- WRENN ID
- high-terrace-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Walled garden
- Address
- Walls and Iron Gates of Walled Garden at Offley Place to North West of House, Kings Walden Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 144 270
- Coordinates
- 51.93024, -0.3365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls and iron gates of the walled garden at Offley Place, located to the northwest of the house, date from the 18th century or early 19th century, with the gates being from around 1777 and originally part of a chancel screen from the parish church. The walls are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and form a large polygonal enclosure, standing approximately 3 meters high on the south side and about 4 meters high along the road on the west side. The south side features pilasters in the western part and large buttresses with two offsets in the eastern part, topped with moulded brick coping.
Near the eastern end of the south wall, there is an iron screen and double gates designed in a Gothick style, complete with side panels and an overthrow adorned with scrolled cresting and quatrefoils. The bottom panels are elaborately designed with lozenge and quatrefoil shapes in the lock rails. The gates are supported by clustered columns with scrolled stays anchored to the ground behind, reflecting a detail similar to the remaining altar rail in the church.
Local climate
Walls and Iron Gates of Walled Garden at Offley Place to North West of House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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