Garden Walls at Keswick Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1987. Garden wall.
Garden Walls at Keswick Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- low-bailey-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1987
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Walls at Keswick Old Hall, Low Road, Keswick and Intwood, NR4 6TZ
- OS grid reference
- TG 208 046
- Coordinates
- 52.59454, 1.25959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls at Keswick Old Hall date from around 1600 and the 18th century. Constructed of red brick, they stand approximately 2.3 meters high and feature added buttresses. The wall runs along the roadside and returns to the north, enclosing the garden. The roadside wall and the west return are built in English bond and English garden wall bond from around 1600, and they have an embattled design with shaped coping bricks, some of which have been renewed. To the north of the west return, there is an attached pier from the 18th century, which is topped with a stone urn. The attached return to the east, also from the 18th century, is made in Flemish bond and includes pilaster strips and an arched gateway to the north.
Local climate
Garden Walls at Keswick Old Hall 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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