Fordham Abbey Garden Boundary Walls and Two Pairs of Gate Piers to South is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. Garden walls.
Fordham Abbey Garden Boundary Walls and Two Pairs of Gate Piers to South
- WRENN ID
- moated-loggia-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- Garden walls
- Address
- Fordham Abbey Garden Boundary Walls and Two Pairs of Gate Piers to South, Newmarket Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 629 697
- Coordinates
- 52.30145, 0.38895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fordham Abbey's garden boundary walls date from the 18th century. They are constructed of local red brick and feature a brick cornice and copings. There are two pairs of gate piers, with the northern pair having moulded stone caps.
Local climate
Fordham Abbey Garden Boundary Walls and Two Pairs of Gate Piers to South sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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