Shrubbery Garden Walls Approximately 175 Metres South of Rockbeare Manor is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1987. Garden feature. 1 related planning application.
Shrubbery Garden Walls Approximately 175 Metres South of Rockbeare Manor
- WRENN ID
- solemn-railing-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1987
- Type
- Garden feature
- Address
- Shrubbery Garden Walls Approximately 175 Metres South of Rockbeare Manor, EX5 2FE
- OS grid reference
- SY 031 937
- Coordinates
- 50.73516, -3.37392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden walls dating from the 18th century, with additions and improvements made in the early 19th century. Constructed of red brick with tile coping, featuring limestone ashlar details and wrought iron gates. The walls enclose two large rectangular gardens: a formal garden with a central brick-lined pond at the north end, and a kitchen garden to the south, both now largely disused. The walls display variations in style, suggesting work from different periods. The oldest section appears to be the southern wall of the formal garden, which includes a plinth and pilaster buttresses dividing the wall into panels. The present form of the walls largely dates to the early 19th century.
A tall crosswall separates the gardens, prominently featuring a large central round-headed arch with plain limestone impost and keystone, flanked by pilaster buttresses rising into small, plain-topped turrets. A further large gateway is located at the southern end of the kitchen garden. The most significant entrance is centrally positioned at the northern end, leading from the house to the formal garden; here, the northern wall slopes down in stages to square-section piers featuring projecting limestone bands, soffit-moulded caps, and ball finials. The wrought iron gates are of good quality, with enriched scrolls and curves to the gate piers. The main gate features a dograil of arrowheads and an ornate overthrow with scrolls. A small doorway with a fielded panel door and sunken panel over, filled with wrought ironwork, is found on the southern side. It was originally flanked by disused glasshouses with brick corner piers topped with stone balls. The centre of the formal garden contains a circular brick-lined pond with a small bronze statue of a boy with dolphins.
Local climate
Shrubbery Garden Walls Approximately 175 Metres South of Rockbeare Manor receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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