Garden House and Adjoining Garden Wall and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. House.
Garden House and Adjoining Garden Wall and Gates
- WRENN ID
- upper-mortar-tallow
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 897 787
- Coordinates
- 52.37434, 0.78608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden House, now divided into two, dates from the early 17th century. It is constructed of flint with some red brick headers, and features red brick quoins and dressings. The house has a hipped, plaintiled roof with a wide eaves overhang and stands two storeys tall with attics. There are two internal chimney stacks with plain red brick shafts. Originally, the house had eight small-paned sash windows on each storey, but this has been reduced to five on each storey, with two blank panels on the ground floor and three above infilled with flint and a diamond of red brick headers. A garden door has replaced one of the windows. The house also features three flat-headed dormers with two-light diamond-leaded casement windows. Inside, there is little visible framing, but two main ceiling beams have chamfer and scroll-stops. The wide internal splay of one blocked rear window suggests that the house was always built with flint and brick walling. The roof has heavy principal rafters and butt purlins. There are later extensions at the rear. The house likely originally faced northwards, and the area to the north of the internal stack in No. 1 has been given arches to the stair and the doorways on each side in a late 17th century Classical style, featuring rounded half columns, moulded capitals, and plain abacus. Extending southwards from the east end of the house is a long stretch of high 18th century red brick garden wall with decorative copings, built with lower courses in English Bond. Attached to this wall is a pair of high ornamental wrought-iron double gates, with plain red brick piers topped by stone urns.
Local climate
Garden House and Adjoining Garden Wall and Gates 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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