The Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1985. House.
The Gardens
- WRENN ID
- frozen-pewter-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Gardens, 2, Slades Hill, Abbas and Templecombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 707 228
- Coordinates
- 51.00446, -2.41889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gardens is a detached house built around 1800. It is constructed from locally sourced stone that has been cut and squared, topped with a plain clay tile roof featuring simple gables and brick end chimney stacks. The house has two storeys and three bays. The outer bays have 16-pane sash windows, while the upper centre bay has a 12-pane sash window. All windows are set in voussoired segmental arched openings with keystones. The central entrance features a boarded door in a similar arched opening. The building is depicted on the Tithe Commissioners map from 1839. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Gardens receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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