Garden house and boundary walls of the courtyard to the north east of Ravenswood School is a Grade II* listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. A Victorian Garden house.
Garden house and boundary walls of the courtyard to the north east of Ravenswood School
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-footing-mist
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- Garden house
- Period
- Victorian
- OS grid reference
- SS 917 187
- Coordinates
- 50.95758, -3.54325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden house and boundary walls of the courtyard to the northeast of Ravenswood School, formerly known as Stoodleigh Court, were built in 1883 by architects Sir Ernest George and H.E. Peto. The structure is made of stone rubble with Ham Hill dressings, although the original covering of the ogival roof of the garden house has been replaced or re-covered with asphalted material.
The garden house is designed as a corner pavilion for the courtyard in front of the entrance (north) elevation of Stoodleigh Court and may have been loosely inspired by the early 17th century forecourt pavilions at Montacute House in Somerset. It is a two-storey building, square in plan, topped with an ogival roof that features a weathercock. The ground floor has open arches on two sides that create a sheltered area. Inside the courtyard, a flight of Ham Hill stone steps leads to a segmental arched stone doorway on the first floor, which has round-headed windows with keystones and external wooden shutters.
Adjoining the building is a steeply-coped stone wall that forms the northeast side of the courtyard. There is also a second wall that creates the northeast boundary of the courtyard, which includes coped gate piers. These features are important to the setting of Stoodleigh Court.
Local climate
Garden house and boundary walls of the courtyard to the north east of Ravenswood School receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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