Garden Walls, Terraces and Steps of Numbers 1-6 and Garden Arbour to Number 6 is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Garden structure. 3 related planning applications.
Garden Walls, Terraces and Steps of Numbers 1-6 and Garden Arbour to Number 6
- WRENN ID
- lesser-bronze-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Garden structure
- Address
- Garden Walls, Terraces and Steps of Numbers 1-6 and Garden Arbour to Number 6, the Grove, N6 6LB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 281 872
- Coordinates
- 51.56996, -0.15249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls, terraces, steps, and garden arbour date from around 1600, with later alterations and additions. The northern and western terrace walls originally formed the boundary walls of the 17th-century Dorchester House, a large mansion that stood to the east of Witanhurst before its demolition around 1688-9. The walls are constructed of red brick and incorporate parapets, terraces, and steps leading down to the lower garden. Within the garden of number 6, in the northwest corner, are the remains of a red brick arbour from around 1600, featuring curved bastions (mainly rebuilt) overlooking the garden. The north wall includes half-round columns and round-arched niches flanking an arched doorway, which has been later blocked.
Local climate
Garden Walls, Terraces and Steps of Numbers 1-6 and Garden Arbour to Number 6 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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