Garden Walls, Steps, Gate Piers and Gates Adjoining South Hill Park on the East is a Grade II listed building in the Bracknell Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 2002. Garden wall.

Garden Walls, Steps, Gate Piers and Gates Adjoining South Hill Park on the East

WRENN ID
brooding-pinnacle-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bracknell Forest
Constituency
Bracknell MP: Peter Swallow (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 February 2002
Type
Garden wall
OS grid reference
SU 871 667
Coordinates
51.39354, -0.74913
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls, steps, gate piers, and gates adjoining South Hill Park on the east form a walled garden with retaining walls, steps, and gates that enclose a rectangular parterre garden. This structure dates from the 19th century.

The walls are made of orange brick in English bond with stone dressings. The east side features a wall with six bays, including pilasters with stone bases and heads. In the center, there is a double stair leading over a stone alcove, which has stone vase balusters and a wide moulded stone handrail. At the right end, there is a wide niche with stone voussoirs and a segmental arched head, which contains a brick bench topped with stone.

On the north side, there is a lower wall with seven bays, featuring similar piers topped with stone urns adorned with swags, of which three remain. The south side has four-panelled gate piers with moulded tops and bases that were once topped with urns. Between the central piers, there are ornamental gates with a pediment-shaped top, decorated with swags and festoons. To the left of the gates is a low wall with four bays.

Local climate

Garden Walls, Steps, Gate Piers and Gates Adjoining South Hill Park on the East sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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