Entrance Gates and Screen Walls at Wyvern Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1974. Military building. 2 related planning applications.

Entrance Gates and Screen Walls at Wyvern Barracks

WRENN ID
riven-storey-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exeter
Constituency
Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 June 1974
Type
Military building
Address
Entrance Gates and Screen Walls at Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, EX2 6AR
OS grid reference
SX 933 912
Coordinates
50.71065, -3.51251
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance gates and screen walls at Wyvern Barracks, formerly known as Topsham Barracks, were built in 1959. They feature red brick walls complemented by wrought iron gates and lanterns.

Local climate

Entrance Gates and Screen Walls at Wyvern Barracks receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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