Manor Garden House is a Grade II* listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A Early Modern House.
Manor Garden House
- WRENN ID
- blind-sandstone-thistle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Manor Garden House, 135, Fishpool Street, AL3 4RY
- OS grid reference
- TL 139 074
- Coordinates
- 51.75395, -0.35055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Garden House is a 17th-century house that has undergone later improvements. It features a high-pitched, hipped, double-sport tiled roof with hipped ends on the north side, which faces the street. The house has two storeys and four windows. The eaves are coved and supported by slender brackets. The front is plastered with decorative pargetting and has a rendered plinth. The first floor has early 18th-century sash windows with thick glazing bars in slightly projecting, moulded frames. The ground floor includes late 17th-century windows with wooden mullions and transoms, along with leaded casements. The entrance has a doorcase with plain pilasters and a moulded cornice hood, leading to a door with six fielded panels set in a panelled reveal.
The south side, or garden front, is an early 18th-century addition with two storeys and four windows, built of pink brick with red brick dressings. Giant pilasters on either side support a moulded brick dentil cornice and parapet. The sash windows here also feature glazing bars in nearly flush box frames, set under gauged, segmental brick arches with white keystones. There is a brick plinth with moulded coping.
Inside, there are two rear rooms with early 18th-century panelling and a glazed corner cupboard. The front room has a wide, open fireplace beneath a stone, Tudor-shaped arch. The staircase is panelled and features fluted, quasi-Ionic columns, with 17th-century panelling in the first-floor rooms.
Local climate
Manor Garden House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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