Garden Wall, Steps and Gate Piers Immediately South of Langdon Court Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Boundary wall.
Garden Wall, Steps and Gate Piers Immediately South of Langdon Court Hotel
- WRENN ID
- sombre-cinder-cobweb
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Garden Wall, Steps and Gate Piers Immediately South of Langdon Court Hotel, Wembury
- OS grid reference
- SX 514 496
- Coordinates
- 50.32833, -4.08811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden wall, steps, and gate piers located immediately south of Langdon Court Hotel date from the early 18th century. They serve as boundary walls to formal terraced gardens and feature flights of steps along with gate piers. The walls are constructed of red brick in English bond with plain stone coping, while the southernmost walls are made of slate rubble. A flight of granite steps leads from the lower garden to the terrace, ending with brick piers topped by tall pyramidal granite finials. At the center of the lower garden is an oval pond surrounded by moulded granite curb stones. This structure is listed as Grade II* for its group value.
Local climate
Garden Wall, Steps and Gate Piers Immediately South of Langdon Court Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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