Stables, Coachhouse, Link Building, and Walls of Attached Walled Garden, at Lawrence End is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. Stables, coachhouse, garden walls.
Stables, Coachhouse, Link Building, and Walls of Attached Walled Garden, at Lawrence End
- WRENN ID
- plain-flint-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- Stables, coachhouse, garden walls
- Address
- Stables, Coachhouse, Link Building, and Walls of Attached Walled Garden, at Lawrence End, King's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 141 198
- Coordinates
- 51.86531, -0.34345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stables, coachhouse, link building, and walls of the attached walled garden at Lawrence End date from around 1841 and were built as part of the country house Lawrence End, which is listed under Kimpton parish. The buildings are constructed of sandy red brick in Flemish bond, featuring hipped slate roofs and painted eaves cornices. The walls of the walled garden are made of similar brick with moulded brick coping.
This L-shaped group of buildings, designed in a late Georgian style, is located in the stable yard to the northwest of the main house, with a large rectangular walled garden connected to the northwest and accessible via a gateway in the wall on the north side of the stable yard. The coachhouse, situated to the south, is shorter than the stables block, which is located to the west, and both are of similar height and construction.
Notable architectural features include a chamfered plinth, a moulded wood eaves cornice with modillions above a projecting pedimented center, and a wide round arched central opening with two recessed orders. On either side of this opening are two round-headed sash windows set in similar round-headed recesses. The coachhouse block has a passageway that is blocked off. Inside the stables block, there is a stucco crosswall within the archway, with stable doors on both the right and left, and a small white box vent with a pyramidal slate roof located centrally on the roof.
The low link building in the corner, which is contemporary with the other structures, features a hipped roof, one round arched window, and a recessed door of similar design. There is also a two-orders round arched gateway in the north wall of the yard. The walls of the walled garden are 3 meters high, rising to 4 meters on the north side and tapering down to 2 meters on the south side. The Ordnance Survey map indicates that the parish boundary runs through the stable yard, leaving the coachhouse in Kimpton parish, but it is believed that the boundary actually runs further south through the dining room of the main house.
Local climate
Stables, Coachhouse, Link Building, and Walls of Attached Walled Garden, at Lawrence End 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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