Front Garden Boundary Wall and Gateway Immediately East of Bovey House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. Boundary wall, gateway.
Front Garden Boundary Wall and Gateway Immediately East of Bovey House
- WRENN ID
- strange-flint-wind
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Boundary wall, gateway
- Address
- Front Garden Boundary Wall and Gateway Immediately East of Bovey House, Bovey Lane, Beer
- OS grid reference
- SY 208 903
- Coordinates
- 50.70732, -3.12187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The front garden boundary wall and gateway immediately east of Bovey House date from the 16th or 17th century. The west front wall is made of ashlar and features a central moulded round arched gateway topped with lions and shields. The south side of the forecourt garden has a flint rubble wall, while the north side has an ashlar wall that includes a modern summerhouse with two stone statues. In the north-east corner, there is a lead cistern dated 1674 with the initials ATS. At the center of the forecourt, a sundial dated 1630 is mounted on a low stone pedestal.
Local climate
Front Garden Boundary Wall and Gateway Immediately East of Bovey House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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