Wall, Stretching About 30 Yards West from Littlegate Street is a Grade I listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. City wall.

Wall, Stretching About 30 Yards West from Littlegate Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1972
Type
City wall
OS grid reference
SP 512 059
Coordinates
51.74993, -1.25898
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The city wall, built in 1485, stretches about 30 yards west from Littlegate Street and is located between Littlegate Street and the Castle Wall. It features rubble footings that are approximately three feet high and four feet thick. The footing of the west wall of Littlegate is also included in this listing. The wall was excavated in 1971.

Local climate

Wall, Stretching About 30 Yards West from Littlegate 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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