Walls and Summerhouse of Wood House North Garden is a Grade II* listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Garden structure.
Walls and Summerhouse of Wood House North Garden
- WRENN ID
- haunted-pediment-merlin
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Garden structure
- Address
- Walls and Summerhouse of Wood House North Garden, South Tawton
- OS grid reference
- SX 654 960
- Coordinates
- 50.74849, -3.90845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls and summerhouse of the north garden at Wood House were built between 1899 and 1905 by Thomas Mawson. The walls are made of granite rubble, designed to resemble crazy paving, with granite ashlar details and quoins, topped with slate coping. The north garden lawn is enclosed on three sides by high walls, with an opening on the southeast side leading towards the house. The back wall curves behind a small summerhouse, which has a circular plan supported by monolithic granite front posts in a classical style. There is a stone seat around the back of the summerhouse, which features a conical thatch roof. On either side of the summerhouse are round-headed niches with moulded eared architraves, with three additional niches on the left side, although none currently hold statues. A doorway in the back wall contains an original door. This structure is part of a larger landscaping project designed by Mawson to accompany the rebuilding of Wood House, which could be viewed from the billiard room in the house. Mawson regarded this work as one of his major achievements.
Local climate
Walls and Summerhouse of Wood House North Garden sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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