Front Garden Walls and Gateway Adjoining East of West Week Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. Garden walls, gateway.

Front Garden Walls and Gateway Adjoining East of West Week Farmhouse

WRENN ID
last-courtyard-dust
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1967
Type
Garden walls, gateway
OS grid reference
SX 657 926
Coordinates
50.71751, -3.90378
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The front garden walls and gateway adjoining the east of West Week Farmhouse date from 1656, with most of the walls likely being contemporary, although the south side is probably from the 19th century. The gateway is constructed from granite ashlar, while the walls are made of granite stone rubble, with the original sections featuring granite ashlar coping.

The gateway has an embattled parapet with moulded coping. It features a low elliptical arch with a moulded surround, and the spandrels are carved with fleur-de-lys. This arch is recessed within a flat-topped arch that has a hoodmould above it, with the date 1656 carved onto the labels. Above the arch is a plaque with the Battishill arms. The plank door is a 20th-century rebuild but incorporates some of the original ironwork.

The gateway is located on the north side of the enclosure in front of the farmhouse and is flanked by a high stone rubble wall that has granite ashlar coping shaped like a keel. The original wall extends along the east side, while the south side is from the 19th century and lacks the ashlar coping. This structure is an attractive and unusual feature associated with the significant West Week Farmhouse.

Local climate

Front Garden Walls and Gateway Adjoining East of West Week Farmhouse 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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