Summerhouse and 2 Sets of Terrace Walls North-East and North-West of Stover House is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Summerhouse.
Summerhouse and 2 Sets of Terrace Walls North-East and North-West of Stover House
- WRENN ID
- solemn-ledge-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Summerhouse
- Address
- Summerhouse and 2 Sets of Terrace Walls North-East and North-West of Stover House, Teigngrace
- OS grid reference
- SX 838 742
- Coordinates
- 50.55665, -3.64165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The summerhouse and two sets of terrace walls are located to the north-east and north-west of Stover House. The summerhouse is situated south-west of the northern end of the lower terrace and is likely part of the garden terraces created by James Templer II, who died in 1813. It features limestone ashlar fronts with rubble walls and a bitumen-painted slate roof that is gabled at the rear, with a square plan. The design is classical, featuring an Ionic distyle in antis and a low pediment above a plain entablature that continues on the returns. Inside, there is a stone floor beyond a stone plinth, with plastered walls and dwarf rubble walls on either side. Some remnants of a simple plaster cornice can be found within.
The lower terrace is likely contemporary with the summerhouse and has a retaining wall made of rubblestone topped with granite coping. Stone vases are placed at intervals along the wall, which has corner piers of granite ashlar at the salients at each end. The upper terrace's retaining walls are made of granite ashlar, aligned parallel to the north-west and north-east fronts of the house, and are coped with ashlar piers at the junction and at the steps, with stone vases at intervals. There are two flights of granite steps with plain raking strings that end in low pedestals topped with similar vases. A third flight of steps is located between the two terrace walls, making these features an integral part of the setting of Stover House.
Local climate
Summerhouse and 2 Sets of Terrace Walls North-East and North-West of Stover House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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