Walls Attached to and North of Woodstock Gate is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1988. Boundary wall.
Walls Attached to and North of Woodstock Gate
- WRENN ID
- weathered-casement-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1988
- Type
- Boundary wall
- OS grid reference
- SP 442 167
- Coordinates
- 51.8474, -1.3591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls attached to and north of Woodstock Gate were likely built around 1723 by Nicholas Hawksmoor. They are made of squared and coursed limestone with ashlar coping. At the corners and where they connect to Chaucer's House on Park Street, there are piers featuring moulded entablatures. Blenheim Park, where these walls are located, is recognized in the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I.
Local climate
Walls Attached to and North of Woodstock 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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