The Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. House.
The Garden House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-shingle-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Garden House, Merton
- OS grid reference
- TL 914 982
- Coordinates
- 52.54799, 0.82251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden House is a house dated 1874, constructed of brick with a corrugated tile roof. It has two storeys and features an entrance porch beneath a stepped gable supported by kneelers, with a brick ovolu pediment above a 1970s door. To the left, there is a cross wing that includes a canted bay on the ground floor with three cross mullioned casements beneath a hood. The first floor has a pedimented casement and a stepped gable on kneelers topped with a mitre finial. To the right of the porch, there are similar windows under pediments, along with a dormer featuring a through-eaves stepped gable. The house is accented by two twin shafted stacks of foiled section on the skyline and has stepped gables on both the north and south facades. To the east, there is a single-storey outbuilding with a gabled roof set between stepped gable walls on kneelers, featuring occasional single light windows with hoods.
Local climate
The Garden 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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