Higher Trayne Garden Piers Steps and Walls is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1994. Garden features.
Higher Trayne Garden Piers Steps and Walls
- WRENN ID
- secret-baluster-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1994
- Type
- Garden features
- Address
- Higher Trayne Garden Piers Steps and Walls, Ilfracombe
- OS grid reference
- SS 540 460
- Coordinates
- 51.19502, -4.0907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Trayne features garden piers, steps, and walls constructed around 1939-41 by Oliver Hill. The garden piers are triangular and faceted, made of dressed local stone, and they flank semi-circular stone steps that lead to the edge of the coombe. Drystone walls are attached, enclosing the gardens and creating an "Italian" garden to the north. The layout of the garden was designed to connect the house with the coombe, providing views of the sea and the Welsh coast. A series of small ponds cascade down the slope in front of the house, creating reflections. Higher Trayne is part of a group that includes the garden piers, steps, and walls.
Local climate
Higher Trayne Garden Piers Steps and Walls sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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