Hensington Gate is a Grade I listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. Gateway.
Hensington Gate
- WRENN ID
- nether-cellar-oak
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Hensington Gate, Blenheim
- OS grid reference
- SP 447 165
- Coordinates
- 51.84592, -1.35159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hensington Gate is a gateway built between 1706 and 1710 by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features frosted columns set on polygonal plinths. These columns support a cornice and flat scrolls that flank a two-tier campanile-style superstructure, which is topped with vases of flowers carved by Grinling Gibbons. The late 19th-century carriage gates are complemented by cast-iron railings on low limestone walls that curve to meet terminal piers with banded rustication. Originally, the gate piers were located in the garden to the east of Blenheim Palace and were relocated to their current position in the 1770s. Blenheim Park, where the gate is situated, is also listed in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I.
Local climate
Hensington Gate receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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