Real Tennis Court Remains About 100 Metres North East of Stowe Barton and Wall to East is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Tennis court.
Real Tennis Court Remains About 100 Metres North East of Stowe Barton and Wall to East
- WRENN ID
- vast-pavement-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tennis court
- OS grid reference
- SS 214 112
- Coordinates
- 50.87351, -4.53929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The remains of a real tennis court, dating from the late 17th century, are located about 100 metres northeast of Stowe Barton and a wall to the east. This structure is associated with Stowe, which was built for John Grenville, Earl of Bath, in 1679. The court features English bond local brick and some polyphant stones, forming three sides of a rectangular shape that measures 29.3 by 9.8 metres, corresponding to the dimensions of a real tennis court. There is an additional wall, approximately 4 metres from the north wall, which likely served as the inner wall for the side and service penthouses. A sloping slate roof extends across the north and inner wall, now forming part of the present shippon. The south wall has moulded polyphant stones at the base on the inner side, and there are remains of a cement floor. The tennis court is mentioned in Charles Kingsley's book Westward Ho! (1855), which notes that after the demolition of Stowe in 1739, "the stables have become a farmhouse, the tennis-court a sheep-cote."
Local climate
Real Tennis Court Remains About 100 Metres North East of Stowe Barton and Wall to East sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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