Garden Wall, Gates and Gatepiers is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. Garden wall, gate, gatepier.
Garden Wall, Gates and Gatepiers
- WRENN ID
- winding-cobble-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- Garden wall, gate, gatepier
- Address
- Garden Wall, Gates and Gatepiers, Old Knebworth Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 230 208
- Coordinates
- 51.87311, -0.21412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden wall, gates, and gate piers are located on the north and east sides of Knebworth House, built around 1845 by H E Kendall. Designed in a robust Tudor style that complements the house, the structure features stucco over red brick. The wall is balustraded with a quatrefoil frieze and has traceried piers at intervals, which serve as heavy stepped buttresses on the park side. The northeast angle includes a polygonal bastion. On the north side, there are both double and single gates flanked by massive composite piers that are square at the base and octagonal at the top. The gates are made of cast iron with stiff leaf foliage designs. The wall to the east of the gates is in poor repair. This structure holds significant group value with Knebworth House.
Local climate
Garden Wall, Gates and Gatepiers 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 84% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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