Walls of the Walled Gardens at Endsleigh is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Garden wall. 1 related planning application.

Walls of the Walled Gardens at Endsleigh

WRENN ID
lone-granite-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 November 1985
Type
Garden wall
Address
Walls of the Walled Gardens at Endsleigh, Milton Abbot, PL19 0PQ
OS grid reference
SX 398 781
Coordinates
50.58071, -4.26364
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls of the walled gardens at Endsleigh are the remnants of the kitchen gardens for Endsleigh Cottage, now known as Endsleigh House, which is currently used as a garden nursery. These walls were built in the early 19th century for the 6th Duke of Bedford and are part of a remarkable site featuring Picturesque buildings and a planned landscape designed by Humphry Repton. The walls are constructed of Flemish bond brick and enclose two large adjoining rectangular gardens. They feature segmental shaped brick capping, and some doorways in the walls are still intact. Humphry Repton's recommendations for the kitchen garden's location at Endsleigh and a list of suggested fruit trees to be planted are preserved in the Bedford Estate Papers at the Devon Record Office.

Local climate

Walls of the Walled Gardens at Endsleigh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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