Walls Surrounding Kitchen Garden, with Summer House at Ashfold School is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. Garden wall.

Walls Surrounding Kitchen Garden, with Summer House at Ashfold School

WRENN ID
low-cloister-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1985
Type
Garden wall
Address
Walls Surrounding Kitchen Garden, with Summer House at Ashfold School, Dorton
OS grid reference
SP 679 140
Coordinates
51.82093, -1.01588
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls surrounding the kitchen garden at Ashfold School, which include a summer house, date from the 17th to early 18th century and have been altered over time. The southern side, facing the main house, is made of coursed rubble stone and features a moulded depressed archway at the center. There is some 17th-century thin brickwork at the southwest corner, while the rest of the wall is constructed from thicker red brick in English bond, complete with an off-set brick and stone plinth and some pilasters. There are altered doorways present.

The summer house located on the southern side of the wall near the eastern end is built from 17th-century materials, although its exact date is uncertain. The northern and eastern sides of the summer house are made of rubble stone with ashlar quoins and a single moulded stone opening. The southern and western sides each feature a chamfered segmental stone arch on semi-octagonal responds and an octagonal corner pier, with a moulded stone string above and a rendered brick pediment on the southern side. Additionally, there is another summer house at the western end of the southern wall, which is a 20th-century structure with a flat roof supported by rubble stone piers and is not considered of special interest.

Local climate

Walls Surrounding Kitchen Garden, with Summer House at Ashfold School 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 77% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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