Wall at Number 21 Wall at Number 23 Wall at Number 31 (St George's) Wall at Number 31 Cowley Road and Numbers 21 and 23 Swinbourne Road is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. Garden wall.
Wall at Number 21 Wall at Number 23 Wall at Number 31 (St George's) Wall at Number 31 Cowley Road and Numbers 21 and 23 Swinbourne Road
- WRENN ID
- weathered-vault-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Wall at Number 21 Wall at Number 23 Wall at Number 31 (St George's) Wall at Number 31 Cowley Road and Numbers 21 and 23 Swinbourne Road, Long Wall, Littlemore
- OS grid reference
- SP 538 029
- Coordinates
- 51.72313, -1.22207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a garden wall dating from the 17th to early 18th century, constructed of coursed limestone rubble. It stands between 2.5 to 3 metres high and features a tapering coursed-rubble coping. The wall marks the north boundary of the gardens for No. 31 Cowley Road (St. George's) and No. 23 Swinbourne Road, as well as the north and west boundary for the garden of No. 21 Swinbourne Road. It terminates approximately 5 metres east of No. 19 Swinbourne Road.
Local climate
Wall at Number 21 Wall at Number 23 Wall at Number 31 (St George's) Wall at Number 31 Cowley Road and Numbers 21 and 23 Swinbourne Road 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
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