Garden Walls and Gate Piers Immediately South-West of Gowthorpe Manor House Q.V. 6/108 is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1987. A C16 Garden walls.
Garden Walls and Gate Piers Immediately South-West of Gowthorpe Manor House Q.V. 6/108
- WRENN ID
- sombre-banister-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1987
- Type
- Garden walls
- Address
- Garden Walls and Gate Piers Immediately South-West of Gowthorpe Manor House Q.V. 6/108, Swardeston
- OS grid reference
- TG 208 022
- Coordinates
- 52.57354, 1.25725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls and gate piers located immediately south-west of Gowthorpe Manor House date from the 16th to 18th centuries and are constructed of brick and flint. The walls enclose a garden measuring approximately 30 by 35 meters. To the south, there is a gateway flanked by two large rusticated brick piers, each topped with overhanging caps and small stone ball finials.
The wall to the west of the gate piers features a partly exposed external face of whole flint, while the internal face is made of brick in an irregular bond. This wall also has two shaped brick gables, indicating the former presence of attached buildings that have since been lost. The wall to the east of the gate piers has a rebuilt external face, with the internal face made of 18th-century brick arranged in Flemish bond.
The interior faces of the return walls to the west and east are both made of brick and include four small segmental-headed recesses. The external face of the east return is constructed in English garden wall bond and features a small semi-circular headed doorway to the north. The external face of the west return consists of broken flint, erratics, and some limestone, with later brick added to the upper courses. There is a wide attached plinth to the north made of 17th-century brick.
The enclosing wall to the north has a brick internal face and a broken flint external face, which incorporates re-used dressed limestone. Additionally, there is a pergola supported by four square columns made of stone dressed flint.
Local climate
Garden Walls and Gate Piers Immediately South-West of Gowthorpe Manor House Q.V. 6/108 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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