Garden Walls Adjoining West of the Orangery and Ha Ha Adjoining West of Stevenstone House Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Garden walls, ha ha.

Garden Walls Adjoining West of the Orangery and Ha Ha Adjoining West of Stevenstone House Terrace

WRENN ID
tenth-forge-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Garden walls, ha ha
OS grid reference
SS 525 193
Coordinates
50.95438, -4.10067
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls and ha ha, dating from around 1872, are located to the west of the Orangery and west of Stevenstone House Terrace. They are constructed from local stone rubble with sandstone ashlar coping, and feature brick piers topped with sandstone ashlar capitals and cast iron railings. The walls enclose three sides of the garden, which opens to the east towards the ruins of Stevenstone House.

The north wall is a tall stone rubble wall that runs alongside the drive to the West Lodge. In approximately 1980, a gateway was added, which includes square-section brick piers and large plank double doors. At the west end, there is an original corner pier made of brick, square in section, with a moulded cap and a carved pineapple finial. A similar pier is located at the south end corner of the western return wall, where two additional piers without finials flank a wide central gateway. The western wall is low, built of snecked stone, and slopes down from north to south as the ground gently falls away. It is topped with cast iron twisted rails and spear-headed finials, along with similar lower intermediate rails. The southern return features a ha ha, which is a stone rubble revetment for the garden terrace that overlooks the former deer park to the south.

Local climate

Garden Walls Adjoining West of the Orangery and Ha Ha Adjoining West of Stevenstone House Terrace receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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