Wall Enclosing Raised Garden to North and East of Lydeard House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. A C18 Garden wall.
Wall Enclosing Raised Garden to North and East of Lydeard House
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- 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 Raised Garden to North and East of Lydeard House, West Street, Bishop's Lydeard
- OS grid reference
- ST 166 299
- Coordinates
- 51.06251, -3.19019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall enclosing the raised garden to the north and east of Lydeard House is a late 18th-century structure designed in a Hindu-Moorish style. It features a red sandstone random rubble plinth and a limestone wall with narrow arched openings that are about 1 metre high. The wall is supported by square piers with moulded caps, and the walls are swept and ramped up to these piers, showcasing pierced stonework. The east wall has a 20th-century addition of a flight of five steps, flanked by red sandstone random rubble dwarf walls that are swept back. The north wall has a receding design that breaks forward, creating a picturesque asymmetry.
Local climate
Wall Enclosing Raised Garden to North and East of Lydeard House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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