Wall, Piers and Steps Extending Aproximately 140 Metres on East Side of Tarring House is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1999. Wall.

Wall, Piers and Steps Extending Aproximately 140 Metres on East Side of Tarring House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1999
Type
Wall
OS grid reference
SX 452 542
Coordinates
50.36749, -4.17774
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The structure is a wall, piers, and steps that extend approximately 140 meters along the east side of Tarring House, built between 1763 and 1771. It is constructed from limestone rubble and ashlar. The low capped wall features round, capped end piers and a central flight of steps leading down to the Tarring and Wheel House. Historically, this wall served as a retaining wall for a roadway between the ropeyard and the Dockyard wall. It is part of a group that includes the White Yarn, Tarring and Tarred Yarn Houses, and the Spinning House.

Local climate

Wall, Piers and Steps Extending Aproximately 140 Metres on East Side of Tarring House 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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