Garden Wall and Gatepiers at Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park) is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Garden wall.

Garden Wall and Gatepiers at Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park)

WRENN ID
sharp-spire-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1980
Type
Garden wall
Address
Garden Wall and Gatepiers at Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park), Bekesbourne Lane, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne
OS grid reference
TR 195 564
Coordinates
51.26452, 1.14556
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden wall and gatepiers at Howletts Zoo Park date from the late 18th century. The wall is constructed of red brick and stands about 8 feet tall, featuring buttresses at regular intervals. There are two pairs of square brick gatepiers, each topped with stone pineapple finials.

Local climate

Garden Wall and Gatepiers at Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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