Walls, Gates, Gatepiers and Railings to Central Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1997. Garden enclosure. 1 related planning application.
Walls, Gates, Gatepiers and Railings to Central Garden
- WRENN ID
- inner-flint-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1997
- Type
- Garden enclosure
- Address
- Walls, Gates, Gatepiers and Railings to Central Garden, Campden Hill Square, W8, W8 7JR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 248 802
- Coordinates
- 51.50738, -0.20232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls, gates, gatepiers, and railings to the central garden were constructed around 1826, with the railings on the north side being replaced after 1944. They are made of cast iron set on a low stock brick wall topped with stone coping. The structure forms a rectangle of cast iron spear railings on a low brick and stone base, featuring urns and decorated column principals with scroll supports on the outside, along with curbing stones attached to the wall at regular intervals. There are seven cast iron gates, three on the east and west sides and one on the south, which have spear railings and lozenge panels at the base, along with cast iron gatepiers that include panels of lozenges and urn finials. The north side is included as the wall is original, although the railings there are of a simpler design. A plaque on the northernmost gate on the west side notes the date of the gates and railings and the developer, Joshua Flesher Hanson.
Local climate
Walls, Gates, Gatepiers and Railings to Central Garden sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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