Inner Park Walls at Caversham Park is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Park wall.
Inner Park Walls at Caversham Park
- WRENN ID
- waning-postern-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Park wall
- Address
- Inner Park Walls at Caversham Park, Peppard Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 722 762
- Coordinates
- 51.48063, -0.96055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The inner park walls at Caversham Park date from the mid-19th century, although they may have been retained from the 18th century by the landscape designer Capability Brown. The walls have an oval plan, being more oval to the east than to the west, and feature a ditch on the outside. They are constructed of red brick and have buttresses that rise about 4 to 5 feet high.
Local climate
Inner Park Walls at Caversham Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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