Kitchen Garden Walls including associated Lean-to Sheds and adjoining Melon House at Plas Heaton is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 June 2000. Garden wall.
Kitchen Garden Walls including associated Lean-to Sheds and adjoining Melon House at Plas Heaton
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-passage-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 June 2000
- Type
- Garden wall
- OS grid reference
- SJ 031 690
- Coordinates
- 53.20995, -3.45207
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The kitchen garden walls at Plas Heaton date from the 19th century and enclose a wedge-shaped area. These walls are constructed of red brick in English Garden Wall bond and topped with sandstone copings, reaching a height of approximately 4 meters. There are segmentally-arched entrances on the north, south, and east sides, featuring sandstone imposts and modern decorative iron gates. On the shorter east-facing wall, there is a centrally-placed melon house, which is a hipped-roofed glazed conservatory supported by brick piers and featuring a canted front. This melon house has large 28-pane unhorned sash windows, although much of the glass has been lost.
Attached to the rear of the east wall is a series of gardeners' sheds designed as a long lean-to. This structure is built of limestone rubble and has a slate roof. It includes three entrances, with the rightmost one being boarded, and three windows: two are two-light windows and one is a single-light window on the far right, with plain glazing in the last two.
Local climate
Kitchen Garden Walls including associated Lean-to Sheds and adjoining Melon House at Plas Heaton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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