Boundary Wall and Gatepiers to Church of St Matthew and the Old Schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1994. A C19 Boundary wall and gate piers.
Boundary Wall and Gatepiers to Church of St Matthew and the Old Schoolroom
- WRENN ID
- hollow-floor-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1994
- Type
- Boundary wall and gate piers
- Address
- Boundary Wall and Gatepiers to Church of St Matthew and the Old Schoolroom, Ilfracombe
- OS grid reference
- SS 485 463
- Coordinates
- 51.19594, -4.16861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary wall and gate piers to the Church of St Matthew and The Old Schoolroom were built around 1860. The wall is made of ridge capped rubble slate and features a string course below the capping. The gate piers are also constructed from rubble and topped with stone cross gable caps. They include a wrought-iron overthrow adorned with a spear finial and a pendant lamp hook. The Church of St Matthew, The Old Schoolroom, and the boundary wall and gate piers are recognized as a cohesive group.
Local climate
Boundary Wall and Gatepiers to Church of St Matthew and the Old Schoolroom 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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