Garden House Approximately 15 Yards North of Snowfield is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1984. Garden house.

Garden House Approximately 15 Yards North of Snowfield

WRENN ID
western-screen-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 July 1984
Type
Garden house
OS grid reference
TQ 797 559
Coordinates
51.2743, 0.57601
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Garden House, built around 1911 by A.N. Prentice for Montagu Barstow Esq., who was the husband of Baroness Orczy, is designed in an early 18th century style. The building is constructed of red and grey brick and is a single storey structure. It features a plinth at the rear that transitions into a platt-band along the bottom of the side elevation, with quoins, a moulded wood cornice, and a panelled stone-coped parapet.

The north elevation has three glazing-bar sash windows, while the east elevation has two, both with cement cills and segmental heads, which are adorned with gauged brick voussoirs and cement-rendered keystones. There is red brick "chainage" between the windows and the plinth, and a stack is located at the west end. The south elevation, which faces the main house, has no windows but features a central recessed panel with a chequered pattern of red and grey brick at the parapet.

A porch runs nearly the entire length of the building, supported by four Doric columns that hold up a plain wooden entablature with a moulded cornice, arched over the central bay. The east end of the porch is glazed, while the west end has been filled in. The entrance consists of a central panelled door set within a moulded, recessed architrave that includes a triple keystone and panelled reveals. The building showcases a high standard of craftsmanship.

Local climate

Garden House Approximately 15 Yards North of Snowfield 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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