Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1997. Kiosk.

Garden House

WRENN ID
dreaming-pavement-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 October 1997
Type
Kiosk
Address
Garden House, Abbey Precincts, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 856 643
Coordinates
52.24564, 0.71745
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Garden House is a structure now used as a refreshments kiosk, originally built against the former north wall of the Great Court of the Abbey. It dates from the early 19th century and is designed in the Regency Gothic style. The building is constructed of flint with stone quoins and features some stone blocks on the front. It has a single pitch slate roof and a range of four windows, which are later 19th century sashes with vertical glazing bars only. Sections of replaced brickwork below the windows indicate that the original windows were deeper. The building has a central door, and above the windows and door are shallow pointed-arched plastered niches with red brick surrounds.

Local climate

Garden House 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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