Walls at the Precentor's House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1973. Boundary wall.

Walls at the Precentor's House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1973
Type
Boundary wall
Address
Walls at the Precentor's House, Cathedral Close, Hereford, HR1 2NG
OS grid reference
SO 510 398
Coordinates
52.0549, -2.71559
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls at the Precentor's House in Hereford date from the 18th century. They are made of curved red brick and serve as wing walls and boundary walls on the left and right sides. The walls are approximately 2 meters high.

Local climate

Walls at the Precentor's House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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