Walls Enclosing Garden and Summerhouse, About 40 Metres North of Amberd House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1988. Garden wall and summerhouse.
Walls Enclosing Garden and Summerhouse, About 40 Metres North of Amberd House
- WRENN ID
- strange-balcony-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1988
- Type
- Garden wall and summerhouse
- OS grid reference
- ST 219 216
- Coordinates
- 50.9885, -3.11317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls enclosing the garden and summerhouse, located about 40 metres north of Amberd House, date from the late 18th century, while the summerhouse itself is likely from the early 19th century and was restored in the late 20th century. The walls are made of red brick, and the summerhouse features a pyramid thatched roof supported by a timber frame on a rubble plinth. The overall plan is rectangular, with a barn attached to the east side and the summerhouse positioned on the south front. The south front wall steps down on either side of the summerhouse, which has a single bay that is two stories high. The ground floor includes a two-light arched Gothic window, while the first floor consists of an open timber-framed summerhouse surrounded by a balustrade. The wall is accented with brick pilasters that form shallow buttresses.
Local climate
Walls Enclosing Garden and Summerhouse, About 40 Metres North of Amberd House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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