Stone Retaining Walls Forming Moat Circa 5-10 Metres West of Brightly Barton is a Grade II* listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1988. Historical monument.
Stone Retaining Walls Forming Moat Circa 5-10 Metres West of Brightly Barton
- WRENN ID
- hollow-lead-sepia
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1988
- Type
- Historical monument
- Address
- Stone Retaining Walls Forming Moat Circa 5-10 Metres West of Brightly Barton, Chittlehampton
- OS grid reference
- SS 612 226
- Coordinates
- 50.98693, -3.97823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stone retaining walls forming a moat are located approximately 5 to 10 meters west of Brightly Barton. These walls are medieval in origin, although their exact date is uncertain. The stone rubble walls, which are about 3 meters apart, create three sides of a square, with the eastern side, closest to the current building, having been infilled. The moat is believed to be around 3 meters deep. Originally, the house was situated in the center of this site but was likely moved to its current location in the 17th century. This moat represents a unique survival in North Devon, a region that has very few moated sites.
Local climate
Stone Retaining Walls Forming Moat Circa 5-10 Metres West of Brightly Barton receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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