Swyncombe Park Walls and Attached Buildings Enclosing Kitchen Gardens Approximately 50 Metres West of Swyncombe House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. Walls and attached buildings.
Swyncombe Park Walls and Attached Buildings Enclosing Kitchen Gardens Approximately 50 Metres West of Swyncombe House
- WRENN ID
- steep-solder-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- Walls and attached buildings
- OS grid reference
- SU 682 900
- Coordinates
- 51.60496, -1.01575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swyncombe Park features walls and attached buildings that enclose kitchen gardens located approximately 50 meters west of Swyncombe House. These structures date from the 18th century and mainly the early 19th century. They are constructed from flint rubble with brick crossbanding and English bond brick, and include round-arched doorways. At the northeast corner, there is a Gothick building made of Flemish bond brick with a Welsh slate roof. This building has a canted end with ogee arches over a plank door and flanking Gothick two-light leaded casements that have stained glass heads. Approximately 10 meters to the west, there is a two-storey store and a lean-to gardener's bothy. To the southeast, a rustic summerhouse features a timber verandah and a decorative tile roof adorned with heraldic finials.
Local climate
Swyncombe Park Walls and Attached Buildings Enclosing Kitchen Gardens Approximately 50 Metres West of Swyncombe House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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