Walls to the Vineyard Including Gate Piers and Walls to the Terraced Beds is a Grade II* listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1989. A C17 Walls, gate piers.
Walls to the Vineyard Including Gate Piers and Walls to the Terraced Beds
- WRENN ID
- tenth-gravel-ivy
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1989
- Type
- Walls, gate piers
- Address
- Walls to the Vineyard Including Gate Piers and Walls to the Terraced Beds, Gittisham
- OS grid reference
- SY 143 979
- Coordinates
- 50.77465, -3.21541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls to the vineyard, including gate piers and walls to the terraced beds, date from the 17th century or earlier. These flint rubble walls enclose the former vineyard, which is not exactly rectangular. Vineyard Cottage, which is separately listed, is located in the north-east corner. In the center, there are symmetrically arranged terraced beds, and there is a gateway in the east wall. The gate piers are made of handmade brick with ashlar quoins and moulded cornices, topped with obelisks on carved bases. This site is part of the garden at Combe House and is an extremely interesting survival. The vineyard is depicted on a survey plan from around 1787, which was reproduced in Christopher Hussey's articles on Combe in Country Life in June 1955. The gardens at Combe are listed as grade II on the Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.
Local climate
Walls to the Vineyard Including Gate Piers and Walls to the Terraced Beds receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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