The Thunder House and Attached Garden Wall Running Approximately 15 Metres South to Munstead Orchard and Approximately 135 Metres to South East to Quadrangle is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. Garden house.

The Thunder House and Attached Garden Wall Running Approximately 15 Metres South to Munstead Orchard and Approximately 135 Metres to South East to Quadrangle

WRENN ID
scattered-ledge-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Waverley
Constituency
Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
Country
England
Type
Garden house
OS grid reference
SU 979 428
Coordinates
51.17656, -0.59959
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Thunder House and attached garden wall were built in 1895 by Edwin Lutyens for Gertrude Jekyll. The garden house is made of Bargate rubblestone with brick dressings and features a plain tile roof. It has a triangular plan and is 1-2 storeys high, with a curving stone stair leading up to a viewing level on the south front. The left side has archways at ground level, while the other sides have openings that are now weatherboarded on the west. The eaves are coved below an oversailing hipped roof, and the north angle of the building is flanked by angled buttresses.

The attached garden wall has projecting rounded coping and runs approximately 15 metres south to Munstead Orchard and about 135 metres southeast to Quadrangle. The wall is approximately 3 metres high along Heath Lane, ramping down from the Thunder House and up again to terminate at Quadrangle, which was formerly Miss Jekyll's potting sheds and is now a house. There is a round-arched doorway with a studded board door next to the Thunder House, as well as a rear entrance to Munstead Orchard and other inserted entrances next to Quadrangle. The Thunder House was originally located at the end of Miss Jekyll's garden and was used by her to observe thunder. The garden is listed as Grade I in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.

Local climate

The Thunder House and Attached Garden Wall Running Approximately 15 Metres South to Munstead Orchard and Approximately 135 Metres to South East to Quadrangle receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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