Kitchen Garden Walls and Attached Gardener's House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1988. Garden walls, gardener's house.

Kitchen Garden Walls and Attached Gardener's House

WRENN ID
blind-pillar-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1988
Type
Garden walls, gardener's house
Address
Kitchen Garden Walls and Attached Gardener's House, Lanhydrock
OS grid reference
SX 087 631
Coordinates
50.43697, -4.69451
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The kitchen garden walls and attached gardener's house date from the late 19th century and have seen few alterations since. The walls are constructed from slatestone rubble with granite quoins and slate coping. The gardener's house is made of granite rubble with brick dressings and features a hipped slate roof with a lead roll at the ridge, along with axial stacks that have brick shafts.

The walls enclose a roughly rectangular garden, with a cross wall running east to west to create an additional south-facing wall. Attached to the north range is a gardener's shed, while the gardener's house is located in the west range. The house has a double depth plan, built into the bank at the rear, with two storeys on the garden side. The entrance is on the right side, facing into the garden.

On the exterior, the north range of the wall has a lean-to shed on the outer side and features double doors with a segmental arch. The east range includes a single door with a brick segmental arch. The cross wall is stepped to follow the slope of the ground and has central double doors, along with single doors to the right and left, all featuring brick segmental arches. The south and west ranges also have similar single doors. In the west range, north of the house, there is a gateway with cast iron gates topped with knob finials, and railings on either side, also with knob finials.

The house itself is two-storey with a symmetrical two-window front facing the garden. It has two 4-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors, each with brick segmental arches. The left side has a single-storey service range, while the right side features a 4-pane sash window on the ground floor to the left and a 6-pane sash window at the centre of the first floor. The entrance door is centrally located and has a flat hood supported by wooden posts. At the rear, there are two 2-light casements with L hinges and brick segmental arches on both floors. The service range has three similar casements and 20th-century plank doors at each end, all with brick segmental arches. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Kitchen Garden Walls and Attached Gardener's House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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