Wytham Abbey,Garden Wall 15 Metres South West and South East Together with Gate Piers and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Wall.
Wytham Abbey,Garden Wall 15 Metres South West and South East Together with Gate Piers and Gate
- WRENN ID
- third-grate-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Wall
- OS grid reference
- SP 474 084
- Coordinates
- 51.7728, -1.31427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wytham Abbey's garden wall, dating from the early 19th century, is constructed of coursed dressed limestone and features stepped stone coping. At each end, there are ashlar piers with gabled tops. The wall includes a pair of iron gates and forms a low boundary around Wytham Park. It is L-shaped, measuring approximately 100 meters long to the southwest and 50 meters long to the southeast. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Wytham Abbey,Garden Wall 15 Metres South West and South East Together with Gate Piers and Gate 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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