Garden Walls to the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Garden wall.
Garden Walls to the Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- drifting-ledge-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Walls to the Old Rectory, the Walk, Islip, OX5 2SD
- OS grid reference
- SP 527 140
- Coordinates
- 51.82236, -1.23658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls to The Old Rectory were built around 1690 and are made of limestone rubble. The walls stand approximately 3 metres high and feature a rendered tapering rubble coping. They enclose the garden to the south and the courtyard to the north of The Old Rectory, with the circuit completed by the Tithe Barn range. There is an entrance from The Walk that includes 20th-century gatepiers and wrought-iron gates that were brought from Ireland. An original pedestrian entrance from the south, which led from Mill Street, is now blocked. The Old Rectory itself was constructed between 1689 and 1690 for Dr. Robert South, and a late 17th-century engraving depicts the garden walls.
Local climate
Garden Walls to the Old Rectory 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 78% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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