Garden Walls, Gates and Gatepiers Adjoining Court House to South is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Garden walls, gates and gatepiers.
Garden Walls, Gates and Gatepiers Adjoining Court House to South
- WRENN ID
- fossil-newel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1988
- Type
- Garden walls, gates and gatepiers
- OS grid reference
- SS 736 298
- Coordinates
- 51.0544, -3.80437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls, gates, and gatepiers adjoining the Court House to the south are likely from the late 17th century and include a reused 18th-century gateway. There have been minor alterations in the late 20th century. The walls are made of squared and coursed stone rubble with coping, while the sandstone ashlar piers are located to the south. The coping is from the 20th century. These walls enclose a formal garden to the south of the Court House.
The walls project at right angles from each end of the main front, returning a short distance before sweeping forward in two quadrants to create a semi-circular plan, with a central gateway that has been blocked, likely in the late 18th century. The gateway on the left-hand (west) return may have been added in the late 18th century. The gateway in the left-hand side wall may have been inserted or altered in the 20th century. The right-hand (east) wall, which borders the churchyard, possibly incorporates some 16th-century fabric, as seen in the reused gateway.
The quadrant walls are lower than the side walls and ramp up at each end. The wall in the blocked gateway also ramps up to the piers. The central blocked gateway to the south features a pair of ashlar square piers with moulded plinths and cornices. The gateway in the left-hand return consists of a pair of piers topped with fluted stone urns and likely includes an 18th-century wrought-iron gate, which was galvanized in the 20th century, featuring dog bars, scrolled panels, repousse work, and a scrolled crest. The gateway in the left-hand side wall, possibly a 20th-century insertion or alteration, has galvanised 20th-century gates. The 16th-century gateway on the churchyard side features a moulded Tudor arch with carved leaf ornament in the spandrels and a returned square hoodmould, along with a boarded door.
Local climate
Garden Walls, Gates and Gatepiers Adjoining Court House to South sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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