Retaining Wall on the Terrace to the Terrace to the South East of Endsleigh House is a Grade II* listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. A Georgian Retaining wall.
Retaining Wall on the Terrace to the Terrace to the South East of Endsleigh House
- WRENN ID
- dim-chancel-twilight
- 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
- Retaining wall
- OS grid reference
- SX 391 785
- Coordinates
- 50.58487, -4.27337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining wall, built around 1810 by Humphry Repton for the 6th Duke of Bedford, is located on the terrace to the southeast of Endsleigh House, which was formerly known as Endsleigh Cottage. Constructed from Hurdwick stone rubble with rough capping stones, the wall supports the flower beds above the terrace. It features round-headed rusticated blind arches with keystones, arranged in groups of three between wide pilasters. The wall is right-angled and taller at the south end, where a large round-headed blind arch creates a recess that once held a rustic seat. Repton's landscape designs at Endsleigh complemented Sir Jeffry Wyatville's work on Endsleigh Cottage, and the terrace offers one of the finest views of the house. The combination of the house and landscape has been described as embodying "the whole meaning of Picturesque." The wall is also illustrated in the Endsleigh Red Book from 1814.
Local climate
Retaining Wall on the Terrace to the Terrace to the South East of Endsleigh House 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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