Churchyard Lych Gate to East of Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Lych gate.

Churchyard Lych Gate to East of Church of St Giles

WRENN ID
winding-balcony-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Lych gate
Address
Churchyard Lych Gate to East of Church of St Giles, Little Torrington
OS grid reference
SS 491 168
Coordinates
50.93141, -4.14832
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The churchyard lych gate located to the east of the Church of St Giles is a structure from the mid to late 19th century. It features rubble side walls with dressed sandstone quoins and a gabled slate roof that has sprocketted eaves and cusped bargeboards. The roof is supported by a king post framework with raking struts. The double gates are designed with open trelliswork in the top half and are topped with iron fleur de lys finials.

Local climate

Churchyard Lych Gate to East of Church of St Giles sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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