Retaining Wall to Kitchen Garden and Kitchen Garden Enclosing Walls, Redlynch Park House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1981. Garden wall. 8 related planning applications.

Retaining Wall to Kitchen Garden and Kitchen Garden Enclosing Walls, Redlynch Park House

WRENN ID
keen-spandrel-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1981
Type
Garden wall
Address
Retaining Wall to Kitchen Garden and Kitchen Garden Enclosing Walls, Redlynch Park House, Bruton, BA10 0NH
OS grid reference
ST 699 331
Coordinates
51.09699, -2.4307
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The retaining wall and kitchen garden enclosing walls at Redlynch Park House date from the 18th century, with alterations made in the early 20th century. The retaining wall, approximately 60 metres long and averaging 3.75 metres high, is constructed of local stone rubble at its base, with upper courses in red brick and a moulded stone coping. It aligns with the West Block of the house and features a recess containing a semi-circular arch and a stone trough fed by a spring. The kitchen garden enclosing walls are all red brick and stand approximately 3 metres high, with matching interior dividing walls that separate the west garden, a central pond, and the Orangery.

Local climate

Retaining Wall to Kitchen Garden and Kitchen Garden Enclosing Walls, Redlynch Park House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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