Garden Walls at Old Rectory, and Gates to Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1986. Garden wall.
Garden Walls at Old Rectory, and Gates to Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- brooding-rafter-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1986
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Walls at Old Rectory, and Gates to Churchyard, Main Street, Willoughby Waterleys
- OS grid reference
- SP 574 924
- Coordinates
- 52.52679, -1.15419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls at the Old Rectory date from the 18th century and are constructed of buttressed brickwork topped with stone copings, extending approximately 30 yards in length. The gate piers are adorned with stone urns. At the northern angle, there are churchyard gates from the late 19th century made of wrought iron, featuring hollow wrought iron piers with pyramidal copings.
Local climate
Garden Walls at Old Rectory, and Gates to Churchyard receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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