Hot Garden Wall, 150 Metres South West of Shrubland Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. A Victorian Garden wall.
Hot Garden Wall, 150 Metres South West of Shrubland Hall
- WRENN ID
- sunken-paling-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- Garden wall
- Period
- Victorian
- OS grid reference
- TM 124 524
- Coordinates
- 52.12913, 1.10287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The hot garden wall, located 150 metres south-west of Shrubland Hall, is a Grade II listed structure built around 1860 for Sir W.F. Middleton, Bart. This garden wall, designed to contain heated pipes for the cultivation of trained shrubs, has a segmental plan and measures approximately 40 metres long and 3 metres high. It is constructed of gault brick with limestone dressings.
The wall features pilasters at bay intervals that support square piers topped with enriched ball finials. Each bay includes pierced balustrading designed with linked quatrefoils. At the centre of the wall is a large niche with a scalloped head, above which is a moulded cornice and an open strapwork crown in the Elizabethan style. The structure is finished with a pair of archways, each containing an enriched lead vase, and a strapwork crown over each archway displays the monogram 'M', representing Middleton.
Local climate
Hot Garden Wall, 150 Metres South West of Shrubland 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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