Garden Walls to Allotment to Rear of Penrose Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. Garden wall. 4 related planning applications.
Garden Walls to Allotment to Rear of Penrose Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- upper-storey-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Walls to Allotment to Rear of Penrose Almshouses, Litchdon Street, Barnstaple, EX32 8NH
- OS grid reference
- SS 560 329
- Coordinates
- 51.07733, -4.05589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls to the allotment at the rear of Penrose Almshouses were likely built in the 17th century. Constructed from cob with slate coping, these walls enclose a large garden behind the almshouses, which can be accessed from the almshouse court through a passageway. This suggests that the garden was created around the same time as the almshouses, which were completed in 1627. The tall brown cob walls have some unfortunate 20th-century cement repairs. Cob is an unusual urban building material, and these walls are significant to the overall 17th-century almshouse complex.
Local climate
Garden Walls to Allotment to Rear of Penrose Almshouses 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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