Agents and Head Gardeners Houses at Fornham Park and Attached Walls is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 2000. House.
Agents and Head Gardeners Houses at Fornham Park and Attached Walls
- WRENN ID
- fallow-courtyard-magpie
- 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
- House
- Address
- Agents and Head Gardeners Houses at Fornham Park and Attached Walls, Fornham St. Genevieve
- OS grid reference
- TL 840 684
- Coordinates
- 52.28317, 0.69659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Agent's and Head Gardener's Houses at Fornham Park, built around 1785 by James Wyatt for Sir Charles Kent, are two semi-detached houses made of gault brick. They feature parapeted hipped slate roofs and gault brick ridge stacks, standing two storeys tall. The facade facing the stable court is symmetrical, with projecting end bays. The central section has three 6/3 sash windows above two 6/6 sash windows, and a doorway to the right that has panelled double doors with glazed top panels and a diamond-paned overlight, all covered by a flat hood. The projecting ends include recessed rectangular brick panels on the first floor, with a blocked window on the left and a tripartite window on the right set within a blind arch. There are gault brick garden and yard walls at the right end and rear of the houses.
The interior of the Agent's house retains the upper part of the staircase and landing balustrade, which features stick balusters, along with panelled doors. This building is part of a significant group at Fornham Park.
Local climate
Agents and Head Gardeners Houses at Fornham Park and Attached Walls 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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