Wall Along South Side of Abbey Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1994. Wall.
Wall Along South Side of Abbey Lane
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-keep-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1994
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Wall Along South Side of Abbey Lane, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 534 383
- Coordinates
- 52.0219, 0.23568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall along the south side of Abbey Lane in Saffron Walden is a 19th-century structure that stretches 112 meters and turns for 25 meters at the western end. It bounds the site of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and now contains 20th-century development. The wall is constructed of flint and erratics arranged in panels, framed with red brick. It features a deep upper brick band and a coping made of cobbles, standing approximately 3 meters high, and is shaped to maintain its height towards the western end.
At the northwest corner, there is an original entrance gateway with red brick piers, each topped with a capstone featuring a ball. There are three additional openings, including a simple garage entry with a concrete lintel towards the eastern end, and two 20th-century arched entryways located in the north-south stretch at the western end. The wall continues south but tapers rapidly to the ground where it has been removed. This wall and Abbey Lane follow the line of a principal road that led out of the medieval town, with the southern turn aligning with the Repell Ditches, or "magnum fossatum," from the 13th century.
Local climate
Wall Along South Side of Abbey Lane 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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