Walled Garden to North of Herstmonceux Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. Garden walls.

Walled Garden to North of Herstmonceux Castle

WRENN ID
hollow-baluster-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
Country
England
Type
Garden walls
OS grid reference
TQ 646 105
Coordinates
50.871, 0.33887
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walled garden to the north of Herstmonceux Castle is a Grade II listed structure, likely dating from the mid-16th century, with later alterations. The garden walls are primarily made of red brick in English bond, with some 20th-century patching and ashlar stonework. The rectangular garden is enclosed by walls that are approximately 3 metres high, increasing to 4 metres at the north end where the garden is elevated. Various sections of the wall display different construction phases; notably, the east wall features a central lower section of header-bond brickwork topped with English-bond brickwork. The coping is quadrant-sectioned, with a top course of headers and ball finials at the points where the wall ramps.

At the near south end of both the west and east walls, there are square-sectioned piers. The east wall slopes down and integrates with the castle, while the west wall steps down. Each of these walls has two round-arched doorways, with the southeastern doorway being elliptically-arched. The raised garden's south retaining wall is about 2 metres high and has saddle-back stone coping, along with a central flight of 20th-century stone steps that features stone piers and a console-bracketed balustrade. The north wall includes offset brick buttresses along its side and a central 20th-century bowed alcove with an ashlar colonnade at the front, featuring French windows in the bow.

A survey from 1570 mentions a walled arbour and orchard located to the north of the castle.

Local climate

Walled Garden to North of Herstmonceux Castle receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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