Gatepiers of Entrance to Riverside House and Flanking Walls is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1990. Gatepiers, walls.

Gatepiers of Entrance to Riverside House and Flanking Walls

WRENN ID
blind-clay-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1990
Type
Gatepiers, walls
Address
Gatepiers of Entrance to Riverside House and Flanking Walls, High Street, Burford
OS grid reference
SP 252 124
Coordinates
51.81022, -1.63579
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gatepiers at the entrance to Riverside House, along with the flanking walls, date from the 1860s. They are made of rusticated ashlar and feature moulded cornices and caps, standing approximately 10 feet high. The dressed rubble link walls connect to Symon Wysdom House and Riverside House. These structures replaced a twin-gabled Elizabethan house.

Local climate

Gatepiers of Entrance to Riverside House and Flanking Walls receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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