Wall Attached to Palladian Gateway and Extending Along Road to Heyford Bridge Together with Gates and Gatepiers is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. Park wall.
Wall Attached to Palladian Gateway and Extending Along Road to Heyford Bridge Together with Gates and Gatepiers
- WRENN ID
- idle-bracket-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- Park wall
- OS grid reference
- SP 476 244
- Coordinates
- 51.9167, -1.30868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a park wall from the mid-18th century, constructed of coursed limestone rubble topped with ashlar coping. It is attached to a Palladian gateway and extends along the road to Heyford Bridge. Near Heyford Bridge, there is an 18th-century plank door with a Norfolk latch set in a chamfered stone architrave. The wall is followed by late 19th-century railings on a low wall leading to the bridge. Mid-19th-century gates and gatepiers are located approximately midway along the wall. This wall bounds the landscape gardens designed by William Kent between 1733 and 1740. Rousham Park, where this wall is located, is listed in the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I.
Local climate
Wall Attached to Palladian Gateway and Extending Along Road to Heyford Bridge Together with Gates and Gatepiers 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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