Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Greenhouse.

Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall

WRENN ID
sharp-lancet-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1987
Type
Greenhouse
OS grid reference
TQ 780 499
Coordinates
51.22094, 0.5489
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The structure consists of greenhouses and an attached kitchen garden wall, built around 1857 and 1899. The central glass-house is two stories tall, almost square, and features canted corners at the front. It is connected by low linear sections, each with approximately twenty glazing bays, to smaller end pavilions. The base is made of red brick, and the brick rear walls of the linking sections are part of the garden walls.

The central pavilion has a pyramidal roof with a narrow glazed upstand running along the ridge from front to rear, along with small bargeboards and an iron finial at the front. The end pavilions have gabled roofs, plain bargeboards, and iron finials. The front of the central pavilion, excluding the corners, is divided into seven vertical glazing bays, each with rectangular panes, and features a frieze of lunettes beneath the eaves. It has glazed double doors in the center. Each end pavilion has four glazing bays on the gable, with larger panes at the bottom, smaller panes above, and a lunette at each gable.

Inside, the greenhouses retain fittings for regulating ventilation and stands for plants. The central pavilion is supported by four Corinthian columns with cast iron spandrels and decorative bases, painted in blue and cream. The attached brick garden walls form a rectangle primarily built in Flemish bond brickwork, with Sussex bond on the south side. They have moulded stone coping and brick buttresses at regular intervals, varying in height from about ten feet on the sides to eight feet at the front. At the southeast corner, the wall meets the carriage arch leading to the main house.

Local climate

Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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