Volunteers who maintain the walled garden say moss and weeds grow more quickly due to wetter winters, English Heritage puts it more bluntly: "The wide-ranging actions required to limit further damaging emissions, combined with the need to adapt historic assets to make them more resilient to a changing climate, will also have significant implications for the historic environment."
In front of the house is a flood plain leading down to the river, which floods much more often now than previously. Head gardener Rosie Fyles says that while some of the trees on the flood plain seem to like the conditions, others are suffering.
Waiting for the general link between climate change and lack of routine inspection and faulty wiring and poor renovation control leading to massive fires in heritage buildings.