Forest Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Cottage.

Forest Gardens

WRENN ID
distant-minaret-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1958
Type
Cottage
Address
Forest Gardens, 4, 5 and 6, Parkham
OS grid reference
SS 357 233
Coordinates
50.98616, -4.34131
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Forest Gardens is a row of cottages located in Parkham, dating from the late 18th century, with an earlier 18th-century dwelling on the left. The cottages are finished with colourwash over coursed slatestone rubble and feature a gabled roof covered with 20th-century tiles. On the left end, there is an external stack made of rendered stone, finished in late 19th-century brick, which includes a bread-oven projection. The mid-19th-century brick ridge and right end stack complete the roof structure.

The row has a six-unit plan, with each house being two stories tall and having a two-window range, along with a central doorway. There are gabled porches from the 19th century leading to four-panelled doors, two of which are glazed. The windows are late 19th-century casements with timber lintels above. Inside, No. 6 on the left features an open fireplace, while No. 4 has a stop-chamfered beam. The roof was thatched as of 1958.

Local climate

Forest Gardens sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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