Boundary Walls and Gates to Number 1 Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Garden wall, gateway.
Boundary Walls and Gates to Number 1 Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-wicket-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Garden wall, gateway
- Address
- Boundary Walls and Gates to Number 1 Garden Cottage, the Street, Ampton
- OS grid reference
- TL 866 712
- Coordinates
- 52.30752, 0.73662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary walls and gates to Number 1 Garden Cottage date from the 18th century. The structure is made of a combination of kidney flints, black knapped flints, freestone, and white brick. It features a heavily rusticated stone archway with a semi-circular head, supported by Roman Doric pilasters and topped with a pediment. The frieze above the archway is inscribed with the words 'ET VOLUPTATI PLURIMUM ET SALUTI'. This entrance led to the kitchen gardens of the Hall, as noted in 'Excursions through the County of Suffolk' from 1819.
The wrought iron ornamental gate has a semi-circular head that mirrors an old door in the garden wall of Ampton Hall. On either side of the archway, there are short stretches of high wall constructed from kidney flints, flanked by two rusticated white brick piers topped with large stone ball finials. Additionally, on the north side, there is a further short stretch of wall made from black knapped random flint, which ends in a third matching brick pier and finial.
Local climate
Boundary Walls and Gates to Number 1 Garden Cottage 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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