Wall Enclosing Garden, North Side of Thornes House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Garden wall.
Wall Enclosing Garden, North Side of Thornes House
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-casement-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Wall Enclosing Garden, North Side of Thornes House, High Street, Milverton
- OS grid reference
- ST 119 259
- Coordinates
- 51.02642, -3.25739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall enclosing the garden on the north side of Thornes House dates from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble and stands approximately 3 metres high. There is a pointed arch opening on the south side, located to the west of the house, which features an early 19th-century studded ledged and braced door.
Local climate
Wall Enclosing Garden, North Side of Thornes House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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