The Dower House and Walls of Attached Walled Garden is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House, garden. 2 related planning applications.

The Dower House and Walls of Attached Walled Garden

WRENN ID
twelfth-rubble-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
House, garden
Address
The Dower House and Walls of Attached Walled Garden, St. Paul's Walden, SG4 8BZ
OS grid reference
TL 186 227
Coordinates
51.89055, -0.27673
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Dower House and the walls of the attached walled garden are a pair of gardeners' houses that have been combined into one residence. They date from the mid-19th century and are built of red brick featuring black brick diapering and patterns in a castellated Neo-Tudor style, with stucco dressings. The house has two hipped roofs covered with slates. All the windows are 2-light bar and transom style with diamond leaded lights. The front of the house has a range of three windows, with the upper central window being an oriel window situated above a pair of recessed entrance doors.

Local climate

The Dower House and Walls of Attached Walled Garden 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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