Rockwork Garden Feature Approx 80-150m South-East of Oakhill is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 2000. Garden feature.
Rockwork Garden Feature Approx 80-150m South-East of Oakhill
- WRENN ID
- outer-rood-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 2000
- Type
- Garden feature
- Address
- Rockwork Garden Feature Approx 80-150m South-East of Oakhill, Oak Hill Lane
- OS grid reference
- TM 159 432
- Coordinates
- 52.04557, 1.14755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The rockwork garden feature, located approximately 80 to 150 meters southeast of Oakhill, dates from around 1900 and is constructed of Pulhamite. This extensive rockery descends through former pools and rockeries down the slope below Oakhill. Although currently overgrown, the feature was originally about 100 meters long. The most visible section, situated below the midpoint, measures approximately 10 meters wide and 25 meters long, dropping around 6 meters in a series of what were once pools. This feature is an unusually large example of Pulhamite rockwork found in a private garden from that period. A sale catalogue from around 1920 includes an illustration and describes it as a rockery cascade titled 'The Glen'. The 1926/27 revision of the Ordnance Survey map clearly marks the feature and indicates its extent.
Local climate
Rockwork Garden Feature Approx 80-150m South-East of Oakhill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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