Structures Comprising Terraced Garden to Amport House is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1984. Garden. 1 related planning application.
Structures Comprising Terraced Garden to Amport House
- WRENN ID
- woven-eave-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1984
- Type
- Garden
- Address
- Structures Comprising Terraced Garden to Amport House, Furzedown Lane, SP11 8BG
- OS grid reference
- SU 297 440
- Coordinates
- 51.1946, -1.5758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structures comprising the terraced garden to Amport House were designed in 1923 by Lutyens and Jekyll. This formal garden features a rectangular area arranged in two shallow terraces situated below the old south terrace of the house. The upper terrace includes a central oval stone-framed basin, from which narrow canals extend from the center of each end. These canals turn at right angles and descend to the lower terrace, where they curve outward to terminate in decorative square basins.
Stone paving lines the water channels on both sides, and stone walls border each terrace. In the center, flights of stone steps connect the two levels. The entire garden is enclosed by a deep wall that separates it from the parkland beyond. The planting scheme, which is both formal and informal, is aligned with axial lines of pleached limes to the west and features a lower informal garden to the east. The layout also includes large vases on pedestals and earthenware jars.
Local climate
Structures Comprising Terraced Garden to Amport House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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