Garden Walls, Gatepiers and Steps at Rear of Woodperry House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Garden walls.

Garden Walls, Gatepiers and Steps at Rear of Woodperry House

WRENN ID
dusk-facade-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 July 1963
Type
Garden walls
Address
Garden Walls, Gatepiers and Steps at Rear of Woodperry House, Stanton St. John
OS grid reference
SP 576 104
Coordinates
51.79003, -1.1653
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls, gatepiers, and steps at the rear of Woodperry House date from the early to mid-18th century, with some parts possibly being older. They are constructed of limestone rubble with some ashlar dressings. The rubble walls extend from pavilions to enclose a rectangular parterre at the back of Woodperry House and continue around a narrower kitchen garden at a lower level. The walls are heavily buttressed on the north and east sides, where they function as retaining walls, reaching a height of 6 meters.

At the north-east corner, there are remains of a two-storey single-cell early 18th-century building attached to the exterior of the wall, made of rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring flat-arched openings and remnants of cross window frames. The east wall of the parterre includes a central gateway flanked by a pair of ashlar piers that have moulded cornices and ball finials. Steps leading down to the kitchen garden descend between ashlar walls that curve inward towards short square piers at the bottom.

Local climate

Garden Walls, Gatepiers and Steps at Rear of Woodperry House 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 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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