Walls Enclosing Gardens, About 200 Metres North of Leonard Wills Field Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Garden wall.

Walls Enclosing Gardens, About 200 Metres North of Leonard Wills Field Centre

WRENN ID
shifting-plinth-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1984
Type
Garden wall
OS grid reference
ST 057 379
Coordinates
51.13343, -3.34852
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls enclosing the garden, located about 200 metres north of the Leonard Wills Field Centre, date from the late 18th century. They are constructed of red brick in English bond and feature a flat sandstone ashlar coping. The walls are set on a sloping hillside and have a rectangular plan, divided horizontally by another wall. The south front has curved corners and reaches a height of about 3.5 metres, while the north side slopes down to about 1.5 metres. The central dividing wall is approximately the same height. There are depressed arch entrances on the west front, with brick piers between steeply inclined courses of brickwork that run parallel to the ground. These walls are part of an important group of estate buildings associated with the former Nettlecombe Court, now the Leonard Wills Field Centre. At the time of the survey in October 1983, the garden was overgrown, and the north wall was in poor condition.

Local climate

Walls Enclosing Gardens, About 200 Metres North of Leonard Wills Field Centre receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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