Kitchen Garden Walls at Ford Place is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1993. Garden walls.

Kitchen Garden Walls at Ford Place

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 December 1993
Type
Garden walls
Address
Kitchen Garden Walls at Ford Place, Ford Street, Thetford
OS grid reference
TL 874 826
Coordinates
52.41001, 0.75484
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The kitchen garden walls at Ford Place date from the early 19th century. They are constructed of flint and gault brick, with some red brick incorporated, and feature a brick coping. The walls face Ford Street, situated between Ford Place and Friary House, and extend to the rear towards Ford Place. These walls are included for their group value.

Local climate

Kitchen Garden Walls at Ford Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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