Garden Walls Approximately 20 Metres South of Lower Dornford Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. Garden walls.
Garden Walls Approximately 20 Metres South of Lower Dornford Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stark-sill-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- Garden walls
- OS grid reference
- SP 449 204
- Coordinates
- 51.88098, -1.349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls located approximately 20 meters south of Lower Dornford Farmhouse are listed as a group value context. These walls, which surround gardens measuring about 40 by 40 meters, date from the 17th century, with the western section constructed in the early to mid-18th century. They are made of coursed limestone rubble, and the early to mid-18th century wall to the west is built of brick in Flemish bond with flared headers, resting on a moulded stone plinth. Notable features include part of a moulded arched fireplace and the chamfered jambs of a 17th-century doorway located to the north.
Local climate
Garden Walls Approximately 20 Metres South of Lower Dornford Farmhouse 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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