Camellia House and Garden Walls, at Wardour Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1966. House, garden.

Camellia House and Garden Walls, at Wardour Castle

WRENN ID
noble-remnant-juniper
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 January 1966
Type
House, garden
Address
Camellia House and Garden Walls, at Wardour Castle, Tisbury
OS grid reference
ST 929 271
Coordinates
51.04354, -2.1025
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Camellia House and garden walls at Wardour Castle were built in 1769 by Richard Woods for the Eighth Lord Arundell. The Camellia House is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a glazed roof. Its five-bay front includes central steel French windows with a fanlight, flanked by two similar steel windows with fanlights. There is an impost band, a modillioned cornice at the parapet, and a pediment above the central three bays. A brick stack is attached to the right return, and the rear is finished with brick walls. The house contains six mature camellias, which are reputed to be among the earliest specimens introduced to England from the East.

The Camellia House is situated at the center of a wall that encloses a large rectangular garden to the south and a smaller semi-circular garden to the north. The north garden features rat-trap bond brick walls with heating flues on either side and to the north of the Camellia House, while the rest of this garden is enclosed by brick walls in Flemish, English, or stretcher bond, approximately 4 meters high, with round-arched stone gateways that have keystones and imposts. The south garden is enclosed by Flemish bond brick walls, about 2.5 meters high. Although the camellias remain, the other gardens have been repurposed; a mid-20th century house has been built in the northeast corner of the north enclosure, and a swimming pool is located in the western half of the south enclosure.

Local climate

Camellia House and Garden Walls, at Wardour Castle receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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