Gardens House (Estate Number 137) is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1979. Gardener's house.

Gardens House (Estate Number 137)

WRENN ID
late-garret-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Norfolk
Constituency
Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 February 1979
Type
Gardener's house
Address
Gardens House (Estate Number 137), Sunk Road, Walsingham
OS grid reference
TF 937 360
Coordinates
52.8869, 0.87863
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gardens House is an early 19th-century gardener's house located by the walled kitchen gardens of The Abbey in Little Walsingham. The house is constructed of red brick and features a low-pitched hipped slate roof with wide bracketed eaves. It has two storeys and three windows on the front, with the first floor being blind and the ground floor having sash windows with glazing bars and flat brick arches. The central doorway is framed by a pilastered doorcase with a cornice supported by brackets, and it has panelled reveals and a panelled door. There is a central brick chimney stack. The rear of the house, facing north-west, also has two storeys and three windows, which are sashes with glazing bars, with the centre window on the first floor being blind and a central door that has been blocked.

Local climate

Gardens House (Estate Number 137) receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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