Kitchen Garden Walls to South and East of Stable Block of Caversham Grove is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Garden walls.
Kitchen Garden Walls to South and East of Stable Block of Caversham Grove
- WRENN ID
- solemn-garret-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Garden walls
- Address
- Kitchen Garden Walls to South and East of Stable Block of Caversham Grove, Surley Row
- OS grid reference
- SU 713 762
- Coordinates
- 51.48095, -0.9743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The kitchen garden walls located to the south and east of the stable block of Caversham Grove were likely built around 1878 to 1880, during the time when architect R. Norman Shaw was working on the house. These walls are approximately 8 feet high and constructed of red brick in English bond with a soldier course. The south wall features a classical pedimented gateway that includes a replica wrought iron gate.
Local climate
Kitchen Garden Walls to South and East of Stable Block of Caversham Grove 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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