Royal Marine Barracks Boundary Wall to North is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1998. Boundary wall.

Royal Marine Barracks Boundary Wall to North

WRENN ID
proud-facade-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 July 1998
Type
Boundary wall
Address
Royal Marine Barracks Boundary Wall to North, Durnford Street, City of Plymouth
OS grid reference
SX 464 541
Coordinates
50.36718, -4.16048
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The boundary wall of the Royal Marine Barracks, located to the north, was built around 1857. It is a tall, battered retaining and boundary wall made of Plymouth limestone rubble, featuring widely-spaced buttresses. The wall was constructed following the excavation of the former Bunkers Hill in 1857 to accommodate the extension of the barracks in the 1860s. It serves to enclose the barracks on the northern side.

Local climate

Royal Marine Barracks Boundary Wall to North 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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