Garden Structures Including Terraces, Summer House, Tool House, Gates and Gatepiers, Sundial and Statuary Furniture to Front Garden to Tapeley Park House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Garden structure.
Garden Structures Including Terraces, Summer House, Tool House, Gates and Gatepiers, Sundial and Statuary Furniture to Front Garden to Tapeley Park House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-lime-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Garden structure
- Address
- Garden Structures Including Terraces, Summer House, Tool House, Gates and Gatepiers, Sundial and Statuary Furniture to Front Garden to Tapeley Park House, Westleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 477 289
- Coordinates
- 51.04004, -4.17249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden structures at Tapeley Park House, dating from the early 20th century, are part of John Belcher's design for the house and its gardens. These include three terraces made of stone rubble with brick coping and projecting buttresses, featuring moulded stone coping. Each terrace has a central flight of brick steps flanked by stone walls with moulded coping.
On the west side, there is a summer house constructed from stone rubble, topped with a scantle slate ogee hipped roof that has a ball finial and projecting timber modillion eaves. This small rectangular building has a tripartite open front with a central arch supported by columns with moulded capitals. In front of the summer house, a flight of steps is flanked by walls adorned with oriental mythical beasts. Tall monolithic granite columns stand in front, entwined with dragons.
The south side features gatepiers made of stone rubble, square in section and topped with ball finials. The wrought iron gates are decorated with ornate cresting of leaves and scrolls. In the centre of the lower terrace, there is a sundial made by J Bird of London, which has a spiral fluted baluster with a Corinthian capital and a bronze sundial on top.
Additionally, there is a tool shed on the upper terrace, on the east side, built of brick and stone rubble with a patterned slate roof and a Dutch gable that includes niches containing busts. Stone arched gateways can be found on the north and east sides.
Local climate
Garden Structures Including Terraces, Summer House, Tool House, Gates and Gatepiers, Sundial and Statuary Furniture to Front Garden to Tapeley Park House receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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