The Two Wing Walls Enclosing Formal Garden, with Gateway, Stone Steps and Stone Piers, Immediately South of Ven House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Garden feature.
The Two Wing Walls Enclosing Formal Garden, with Gateway, Stone Steps and Stone Piers, Immediately South of Ven House
- WRENN ID
- turning-bonework-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Garden feature
- Address
- The Two Wing Walls Enclosing Formal Garden, with Gateway, Stone Steps and Stone Piers, Immediately South of Ven House, London Road, Milborne Port
- OS grid reference
- ST 680 183
- Coordinates
- 50.96387, -2.45665
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The two wing walls enclosing a formal garden, with a gateway, stone steps, and stone piers, are located immediately south of Ven House. These structures date from the 18th century and are made of red brick in English garden wall bond, with ashlar piers and cappings. The walls extend southward from the terrace of Ven House for nearly 40 meters on either side of the garden, featuring intermediate ashlar piers. The east wall includes a gateway with ball finials on the piers, and the gates are from the 20th century. At the southern ends of the walls, there are two detached flights of stone stairs with brick balustrading, ashlar copings, and sculptured figures crowning the piers at each end of the balustrading. Nearby, also detached, is a substantial stone structure made of Ham stone ashlar, measuring about 600 millimeters square and 4 meters tall, featuring three fielded panels on all but the north faces, set over a moulded plinth, with a cornice capping and urn and lid finials. These elements contribute to the complex setting of an important country house.
Local climate
The Two Wing Walls Enclosing Formal Garden, with Gateway, Stone Steps and Stone Piers, Immediately South of 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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