Garden House of Friern Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. Garden house.
Garden House of Friern Hospital
- WRENN ID
- inner-hearth-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Hornsey and Friern Barnet MP: Catherine West (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden house
- Address
- Garden House of Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet Road N11
- OS grid reference
- TQ 281 920
- Coordinates
- 51.61308, -0.15074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden House of Friern Hospital is an octagonal structure built of yellow brick with a slate roof, serving as both a garden house and a water tower. It features an arcade with seating that surrounds the central pump room and reservoir. This building is an attractive element of the hospital grounds.
Local climate
Garden House of Friern Hospital 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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