Merton College, Wall Fronting Merton Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. A Medieval Wall. 1 related planning application.
Merton College, Wall Fronting Merton Street
- WRENN ID
- tenth-mullion-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- Wall
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Merton College, Wall Fronting Merton Street, OX1 4JE
- OS grid reference
- SP 518 061
- Coordinates
- 51.75151, -1.25038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merton College has a medieval stone wall that dates back to 1485. This wall runs along the entire length of the Merton boundary and features triangular coping at the top.
Local climate
Merton College, Wall Fronting Merton Street 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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