Garden Area Wall, Gate Piers and Mounting Block Immediately East of Foales Leigh is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. Garden wall.

Garden Area Wall, Gate Piers and Mounting Block Immediately East of Foales Leigh

WRENN ID
nether-tower-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1993
Type
Garden wall
Address
Garden Area Wall, Gate Piers and Mounting Block Immediately East of Foales Leigh, Harberton
OS grid reference
SX 764 580
Coordinates
50.40925, -3.73981
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden area wall, gate piers, and mounting block located immediately east of Foales Leigh date from the 18th century. The wall is constructed from slate rubble and features slate coping. The right end of the wall curves back towards the lower end of the house. At the center of the wall, there are a pair of square gate piers made of slate rubble, each topped with slate caps, and there is a simple wrought iron gate from the 19th century. To the left inside the wall, there is a mounting block with slate treads.

Local climate

Garden Area Wall, Gate Piers and Mounting Block Immediately East of Foales Leigh 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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