Walls Enclosing Kitchen Garden, Immediately East of Stables, Ven House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Garden wall.

Walls Enclosing Kitchen Garden, Immediately East of Stables, Ven House

WRENN ID
sleeping-merlon-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1961
Type
Garden wall
Address
Walls Enclosing Kitchen Garden, Immediately East of Stables, Ven House, London Road, Milborne Port
OS grid reference
ST 681 183
Coordinates
50.964, -2.45467
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls enclosing the kitchen garden, located immediately east of the stables at Ven House, date from the 18th century. They are constructed of red brick in English Garden wall bond, with Ham stone dressings. The brick walls stand approximately 4 metres high and feature plain ashlar copings, along with brick piers topped with cornice caps and ball finials. The walls enclose a kitchen garden measuring about 70 metres by 50 metres, and also extend northwards to a nursery. There are gateways in the middle of the north and south walls of the kitchen garden, featuring good wrought iron gates with simple overthrows. The east wall is lower, around 1.5 metres, and is made of rubble stonework. In the centre of this wall, there are tall ashlar piers with cornice caps and urn finials, along with good wrought iron gates that have an elaborate overthrow. These walls are part of the setting for an important country house.

Local climate

Walls Enclosing Kitchen Garden, Immediately East of Stables, Ven House 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 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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