Garden Wall and Gateway, Parallel and Adjacent to Church Lane and 20 North of Barham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1977. Garden wall, gateway.
Garden Wall and Gateway, Parallel and Adjacent to Church Lane and 20 North of Barham Hall
- WRENN ID
- other-stone-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1977
- Type
- Garden wall, gateway
- OS grid reference
- TM 137 509
- Coordinates
- 52.11524, 1.12034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden wall and gateway, located parallel and adjacent to Church Lane and 20 meters north of Barham Hall, date back to the early or mid 16th century. This structure likely served as the entrance and part of the enclosing wall of the base court of Barham Hall, which has since been demolished, with the current Hall situated on a new site. The wall measures about 80 meters in length and stands approximately 2.5 meters high on average. It is primarily constructed of narrow red bricks arranged in irregular English bond, with one section made of narrow gault bricks.
Nine meters from the eastern end, there is a blocked 16th-century pedestrian gateway made of brick with limestone dressings. The jambs of the gateway are splayed, and the head is elliptical with a hood-mould. The parapet above has been altered but features crowstepping and a blocked niche over the doorway. To the right and left of the south (inner) face of the archway, there are blocked original openings, indicating that the gateway may have been part of a porch or small gatehouse. The wall underwent significant remodeling, particularly at the right-hand end, during the 18th century and was recapped with splayed brickwork on dentilled tabling in the 19th century. A stone coat of arms that was previously built into the wall above the gateway has since been removed.
Local climate
Garden Wall and Gateway, Parallel and Adjacent to Church Lane and 20 North of Barham Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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