Gatepiers and Walls to Stable Court at Fornham Park is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 2000. Gatepiers, walls.

Gatepiers and Walls to Stable Court at Fornham Park

WRENN ID
high-cinder-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 2000
Type
Gatepiers, walls
Address
Gatepiers and Walls to Stable Court at Fornham Park, Fornham St. Genevieve
OS grid reference
TL 840 684
Coordinates
52.28299, 0.69675
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gatepiers and walls to the stable court at Fornham Park were built around 1785 by James Wyatt for Sir Charles Kent. They feature stucco and ashlar gatepiers, along with walls made of gault brick, red brick, and flint. The structure includes a pair of large plain stuccoed piers that have moulded cornices and impost blocks. One pier supports a cast-iron lamp standard with a globe, while the other is currently covered in ivy. High walls extend from one pier, separating the stable court from the gardens of the Agent's and Head Gardener's Houses. From the other pier, a high wall made of gault brick, followed by flint and red brick, leads towards the truncated rear wall of the former Fornham House, which was demolished around 1951. A further gault brick wall connects to the former Laundry. This structure is part of a significant group at Fornham Park.

Local climate

Gatepiers and Walls to Stable Court at Fornham Park 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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