Kitchen Garden Walls and Gate Piers Approximately 120 Metres North East of Wembury House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Garden walls.
Kitchen Garden Walls and Gate Piers Approximately 120 Metres North East of Wembury House
- WRENN ID
- young-slate-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Garden walls
- OS grid reference
- SX 532 492
- Coordinates
- 50.32521, -4.06292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The kitchen garden walls and gate piers, located approximately 120 metres northeast of Wembury House, date from the early 19th century. The walls are constructed of stone rubble and feature plain stone coping, enclosing a rectangular kitchen garden. On the west side, there are ashlar gate piers at the entrance, which are square in plan and topped with moulded caps and ball finials. The kitchen garden is separated from the grounds of Wembury House by a road.
Local climate
Kitchen Garden Walls and Gate Piers Approximately 120 Metres North East of Wembury House 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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