Garden Walls on East Side of Hatfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Garden walls.

Garden Walls on East Side of Hatfield House

WRENN ID
ragged-latch-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
Garden walls
Address
Garden Walls on East Side of Hatfield House, Hatfield Park
OS grid reference
TL 237 084
Coordinates
51.7608, -0.20789
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls on the east side of Hatfield House were likely built around 1845 for the second Marquess of Salisbury, although they follow the design of the Jacobean gardens created in the 17th century by Solomon de Caus, John Tradescant, and Montague Jennings. The walls enclose the upper garden and three sides of the lower garden, which contains The Moze. The lower halves of the walls are made of red brick, while the upper parts feature trellis brickwork. There are moulded courses and cornices, and the trellis work displays alternating sections of diamond and oval patterns, separated by panelled piers. The steps leading from the upper to the lower garden consist of two flights, and the belvedere has been modified to include two flights instead of the earlier single flight. The walls are included for their group value.

Local climate

Garden Walls on East Side of Hatfield 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 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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