Range of Garden Walls Attached to North of Retainer's Court is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Garden wall.

Range of Garden Walls Attached to North of Retainer's Court

WRENN ID
stark-vault-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1987
Type
Garden wall
OS grid reference
SX 421 686
Coordinates
50.49646, -4.22666
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a range of garden walls located to the north of Retainers' Court, possibly dating from the 16th century in the western section, with extensions from the 18th century and repairs made in the 20th century. The walls are constructed from slatestone rubble with granite dressings.

The first range extends approximately 60 meters to the north, while a second range, about 60 meters long, runs to the west and includes a gardener's shed attached to its north side. There is also a third range extending about 100 meters to the west, likely added in the 18th century, which returns along the eastern side of the garden surrounding the house.

The first range is about 2 meters high and features a gateway to the south with a 19th-century granite surround and a segmental arch. There is another granite gateway with a segmental arch located towards the middle of this range. At the northern end, the wall has slate coping over a granite doorway, which also has a segmental arch and a 20th-century door in the Chinese Chippendale style. The western range has a lean-to gardener's shed on its north side, and the eastern wall features slatestone battlements that continue along part of the southern return.

Local climate

Range of Garden Walls Attached to North of Retainer's Court sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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