Garden Structures Including Terraces, Garden Walls, Summer Houses and Folly to Garden to North-West of Tawstock Court is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Garden structures. 1 related planning application.
Garden Structures Including Terraces, Garden Walls, Summer Houses and Folly to Garden to North-West of Tawstock Court
- WRENN ID
- swift-clay-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1987
- Type
- Garden structures
- OS grid reference
- SS 557 299
- Coordinates
- 51.05088, -4.05939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden structures to the north-west of Tawstock Court include terraces, garden walls, summer houses, and a folly, dating from the late 18th century. The stone rubble garden walls surround three sides and feature rubbed brick capping with ball finials at intervals along the east side. There are four ashlar terraces with balustrades, connected by a sweeping flight of stone steps at the top right corner.
In the center of the north side is a summer house with a tent-shaped roof and timber lattice work. A small, squat folly tower is located at the south-east corner, topped with an embattled parapet. This folly has a four-light window at the front above balustrading, with a cambered arch below. The roof of the folly has been removed. There is also a cambered arched gateway on the west side, which is surmounted by lions. Additionally, a hexagonal summer house at the south-west corner features a conical thatched roof, with gothick pointed arched windows flanking double plank doors that have pointed arched glazing bars.
Local climate
Garden Structures Including Terraces, Garden Walls, Summer Houses and Folly to Garden to North-West of Tawstock Court sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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