Boundary Wall, Railings and War Memorial to South of Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1995. Boundary wall, war memorial.

Boundary Wall, Railings and War Memorial to South of Town Hall

WRENN ID
stranded-belfry-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 June 1995
Type
Boundary wall, war memorial
Address
Boundary Wall, Railings and War Memorial to South of Town Hall, Lee Road, Lynton and Lynmouth, North Devon, EX35 6HT
OS grid reference
SS 718 494
Coordinates
51.23024, -3.83632
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The boundary wall, railings, and war memorial located to the south of the Town Hall in Lynton were constructed in 1900 and 1920. The structure features a low rubble wall with weathered stone coping, approximately 1 meter high on the left and 1.5 meters high on the right. It includes square piers topped with flat domed square cappings at each end and in two pairs at the entrance to short flights of concrete steps with quarter landings. The wall spans the width of the main building's frontage. Connecting the piers is a low railing with a scrolled balustrade.

At the upper level, flanking the steps, stands the granite war memorial, which is designed as an unfluted Doric column with a square abacus on an echinus decorated with egg-and-dart motifs, topped with a ball finial. This column rests on a square rock-faced granite plinth, which features polished panels displaying the names of those who lost their lives in the 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 wars. The memorial is further enhanced by a stylobate of three square granite steps, with polished treads and rock-faced risers, all enclosed by a low iron railing.

Local climate

Boundary Wall, Railings and War Memorial to South of Town Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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