Garden Walls at the Vines is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Garden wall. 4 related planning applications.
Garden Walls at the Vines
- WRENN ID
- high-roof-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Walls at the Vines, High Road, Essendon, AL9 6HS
- OS grid reference
- TL 273 085
- Coordinates
- 51.7608, -0.15555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls at The Vines are a large 18th-century structure that once served as a kitchen garden. Made of red brick, the buttressed walls stand between 3 to 4 metres high. The walls are rectangular in shape, featuring a projection on the east side where the wall returns from the north, forming a small gable end. The original coping remains intact throughout the structure.
Local climate
Garden Walls at the Vines 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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