Garden Walls to the East, North and West of Newton Ferrers House, Old Entrance on the East and Arch on the West is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. Garden wall.

Garden Walls to the East, North and West of Newton Ferrers House, Old Entrance on the East and Arch on the West

WRENN ID
lone-nave-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1985
Type
Garden wall
Address
Garden Walls to the East, North and West of Newton Ferrers House, Old Entrance on the East and Arch on the West, St. Mellion
OS grid reference
SX 347 659
Coordinates
50.46995, -4.33042
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls surrounding Newton Ferrers House date from the late 17th century and include an old entrance on the east and an arch on the west. The gatepiers, which originally formed the entrance to the house, are made of granite ashlar. Before 1950, these piers were square in shape and featured a moulded plinth with ornamented shafts topped by ionic volutes, a square abacus, curved necks, and ball finials. Each pier had two incised moulded panels with a dovetailed band and heraldic arms above; the left pier displayed the Coryton arms, while the right featured the de Ferrers arms.

The piers have since been altered and re-arranged, with the upper parts of the panels and dovetailed band now serving as capitals on the western elevation, and the heraldic shields used as capitals on the east. The original entrance has been completely blocked, and the shafts are now undecorated. A datestone marked '1695', salvaged from the west range of the house which was damaged by fire in 1940, has been reset in the stone rubble wall between the piers on the east side. The stone rubble garden wall extends to the east, north, and west of the house, enclosing a topiary garden that has been partially remodelled. On the west side, there is a segmental chamfered granite arch, which may have been reset, incorporated into the stone rubble wall. For a historical illustration of the gatepiers before the remodelling, refer to "Newton Ferrers, Cornwall, the seat of Mr Digby Collins" in Country Life, January 9, 1904.

Local climate

Garden Walls to the East, North and West of Newton Ferrers House, Old Entrance on the East and Arch on the West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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