Ha Ha Running Between Rousham House and Lodge Adjoining Palladian Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. Ha-ha.
Ha Ha Running Between Rousham House and Lodge Adjoining Palladian Gateway
- WRENN ID
- stark-kitchen-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- Ha-ha
- OS grid reference
- SP 477 243
- Coordinates
- 51.91574, -1.30673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ha-ha, built around 1733 to 1740, is a coursed limestone rubble wall with stone coping. It runs between Rousham House and the lodge adjoining the Palladian gateway. This feature defines the landscape gardens that were designed by William Kent during the same period. Rousham Park is recognized in the Historic England Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I.
Local climate
Ha Ha Running Between Rousham House and Lodge Adjoining Palladian Gateway sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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