Walls, Steps, Gateway, Pond and Pergola to Italianate Garden, Number 41 Witanhurst is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1998. Garden.

Walls, Steps, Gateway, Pond and Pergola to Italianate Garden, Number 41 Witanhurst

WRENN ID
carved-groin-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 October 1998
Type
Garden
Address
Walls, Steps, Gateway, Pond and Pergola to Italianate Garden, Number 41 Witanhurst, Highgate West Hill
OS grid reference
TQ 280 871
Coordinates
51.56838, -0.15404
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Italianate garden at Number 41 Witanhurst features walls, steps, a gateway, a pond, and a pergola, designed around 1913, likely by Harold Peto for Sir Arthur Crosfield. It includes brick construction with stone dressings, coping, columns, and piers, along with cast-iron gates. The garden consists of three linked compartments that step downhill and are enclosed by stone-coped brick walls.

Stone-coped balustraded steps lead from a shaped wall into the first compartment, which contains a central pond with a fountain and surrounding statues. Similar steps provide access to the central compartment. The third, most sunken compartment is reached through tall stone gate piers that are panelled and corniced, featuring a cast-iron gate and decorative wrought-iron overthrow. Substantial stone balustrades flank these piers atop a brick wall. Stone balustraded steps descend into an apsed rectangular garden, which is adorned with a stone-columned pergola that wraps around the apse formed by a segmental-shaped reflecting pond.

Local climate

Walls, Steps, Gateway, Pond and Pergola to Italianate Garden, Number 41 Witanhurst sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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