Outbuildings to the North East and Walls of Walled Garden to Wells House is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1988. Outbuilding.
Outbuildings to the North East and Walls of Walled Garden to Wells House
- WRENN ID
- high-loft-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1988
- Type
- Outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- SX 830 854
- Coordinates
- 50.65664, -3.65532
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The outbuildings and walls of the walled garden at Wells House, possibly dating from the 18th century, are constructed of cob and stone rubble. The outbuildings are colourwashed and plastered, featuring slate roofs, while the garden walls have slate capping and are also colourwashed facing the road. Originally agricultural, the outbuildings are now used for storage.
The buildings form a U-shaped range with one curved corner located to the northeast of Wells House. Access to the yard is from Dry Lane, situated between the end of the curved range and the right (north) end of the house. A cob and stone rubble wall encloses a kitchen garden at the rear of the house, with the north wall adjacent to the roadside of Commons Hill, opposite Sea Hill House.
The exterior of the outbuildings features an attractive curved slate roof at the corner where Dry Lane meets Commons Hill, along with a large three-light window and a narrow doorway on the Dry Lane side. The elevation facing Commons Hill is blind and continues as the north wall of the walled garden. On the yard side, the range is partly weatherboarded and partly open-fronted, with a doorway in the east wall of the walled garden.
The interior of the outbuildings has not been inspected. These structures hold significant group value with Wells House and Sea Hill.
Local climate
Outbuildings to the North East and Walls of Walled Garden to Wells House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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