Baste Walls is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1978. Defensive structure. 1 related planning application.
Baste Walls
- WRENN ID
- idle-beam-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1978
- Type
- Defensive structure
- Address
- Baste Walls, South Street, Totnes, TQ9 5DZ
- OS grid reference
- SX 801 603
- Coordinates
- 50.43073, -3.68891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Baste Walls is a late 14th century section of the southern circuit of the Totnes Town wall, which has been extensively repaired around 1639. The remains are located along the center of South Street and consist of the outer face of the curtain wall made of random Devonian limestone rubble, topped with a modern parapet. The wall stretches from opposite No 3 to a point west of No 13. There are breaks in the wall for modern steps opposite Leechwell Lane and for a ramp by the Civic Hall, near the site of the medieval Shambles Gate. No 10 South Street may have originally served as a defensive tower on the wall circuit, similar to a possible tower at the rear of No 2 High Street. The positioning of the Baste Walls indicates that the northern raised section of South Street might have originally functioned as a rampart walk.
Local climate
Baste Walls receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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