The Garden House and Attached Walls and Gatepier to South, East and West is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. House.
The Garden House and Attached Walls and Gatepier to South, East and West
- WRENN ID
- tangled-minaret-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Garden House and Attached Walls and Gatepier to South, East and West, Main Street, Mollington
- OS grid reference
- SP 442 473
- Coordinates
- 52.12309, -1.35553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden House, along with its attached walls and gatepier to the south, east, and west, is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with a 19th-century extension. It is constructed of squared coursed lias stone and features a stone slate roof. The original layout was a two-unit plan positioned at right angles to the road. The building stands two storeys high with an attic. The main facade has two bays and consists of a one-window range, featuring a leaded casement on the ground floor and three-light stone mullion windows on the first floor. The gable ends have ashlar parapets and kneelers.
There is a single-storey extension, likely from the 19th century, which includes a 20th-century door. The rear elevation displays a three-light stone mullion window with a transom on both the ground and first floors to the left, along with a 20th-century roof dormer in the attic. A lateral stack on the right side of the rear elevation has been partially rebuilt in brick. The gable on the right side of the main front features a two-light stone mullion window in the attic.
The walls attached to the south, east, and west are likely of late 17th-century origin and were restored in the 19th century, with two-stage buttresses. A section of the wall on the east side includes a truncated gatepier topped with a ball finial, enclosing part of the garden and connecting to the walls and gatepiers at Manor Farmhouse to the east and west. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to contain 17th-century panelling, a hall fireplace with a chamfered stone surround, a parlour fireplace with a four-centred arch-head and moulded stone surround, and a first-floor fireplace with a bolection-moulded wood surround.
Local climate
The Garden House and Attached Walls and Gatepier to South, East and West receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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