Bastion 2 is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. A Victorian City wall with bastion.
Bastion 2
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-gravel-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- City wall with bastion
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Bastion 2, City Wall
- OS grid reference
- SP 511 063
- Coordinates
- 51.75327, -1.26039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 28 to 32 on St Michael's Street, dating from the mid 19th century, is a red brick building featuring small shops on the ground floor with workshops above, all in their original configuration. It has a central entrance leading to the rear and stands two storeys tall. A large window spans the upper floor, and the building is topped with a hipped slate roof. Notably, the rear part of No 32 is constructed on the remains of No 2 bastion of the City Wall. This property is part of a group that includes Nos 26 to 36.
Local climate
Bastion 2 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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