Garden Walls and Gate Immediately North of Julians is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. Garden.
Garden Walls and Gate Immediately North of Julians
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- Garden
- Address
- Garden Walls and Gate Immediately North of Julians, Rushden
- OS grid reference
- TL 307 325
- Coordinates
- 51.97642, -0.09768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls and gate immediately north of Julians are Grade II listed structures with origins dating back to the 18th century. They were laid out between 1937 and 1939 for Colonel R. Cooper. The walls, made of red brick and approximately 2 meters high, extend in three sections from the house to enclose a rectangular garden.
Brick piers with moulded stone caps feature vase finials on the eastern opening, ball finials to the south, and eagle finials to the north. A rectangular wall to the north encloses a swimming pool. The garden is accessed through wrought iron gates set between rusticated ashlar piers, which also have bulbous vase finials. Opposite these, there are piers with vase finials, and ball finials are positioned at the corners.
To the west, there is an apsidal changing room, and to the east, an open apse. Notably, to the northeast, a stone with the inscription 'AM/MM/WAM/1823' is incorporated into a section of the wall that once enclosed the 18th-century kitchen garden.
Local climate
Garden Walls and Gate Immediately North of Julians sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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