Walled Garden and Doric Portal at Lamer House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Walled garden. 2 related planning applications.
Walled Garden and Doric Portal at Lamer House
- WRENN ID
- last-pavement-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Walled garden
- Address
- Walled Garden and Doric Portal at Lamer House, Lamer Lane, Wheathampstead, AL4 8RL
- OS grid reference
- TL 180 161
- Coordinates
- 51.83123, -0.28815
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walled garden and Doric portal at Lamer House is a Grade II listed structure. The rectangular walled garden dates back to the 16th century and was extended on the southeast side in the 18th century to create an L-shaped enclosure. An early 17th-century, or possibly late 16th-century, portal from the front of Lamer House was inserted on the south side of the garden extension in the early 20th century. The walls are made of red brick, with the earlier section standing about 3 meters high. The portal is constructed from limestone and features a single round arch with a keystone and a moulded architrave. It is flanked by single detached Doric columns with fluted shafts, and there are projecting entablature blocks above. The frieze includes triglyphs and paterae, and the cornice has been restored but is badly weathered.
Local climate
Walled Garden and Doric Portal at Lamer House 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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