Wall and Doorway Adjoining the Examination Schools and to the West of Them is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. Wall, doorway.

Wall and Doorway Adjoining the Examination Schools and to the West of Them

WRENN ID
long-chamber-swallow
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, doorway
OS grid reference
SP 518 062
Coordinates
51.75249, -1.25037
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The wall and doorway adjoining the Examination Schools, located to the west of them, was built in 1878 by Sir T G Jackson. Constructed from ashlar, it features a small doorway. This structure is part of a group of listed buildings on the south side of High Street.

Local climate

Wall and Doorway Adjoining the Examination Schools and to the West of Them 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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