Park Walls, Surrounding Blenheim Park is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1988. Park walls.
Park Walls, Surrounding Blenheim Park
- WRENN ID
- fading-pavement-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1988
- Type
- Park walls
- Address
- Park Walls, Surrounding Blenheim Park, Combe
- OS grid reference
- SP 417 176
- Coordinates
- 51.85566, -1.39555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The park walls surrounding Blenheim Park are designated as a Grade II structure. They were primarily built between 1722 and 1729 by William Townesend and Bartholomew Peisley, although they have medieval origins and have undergone later repairs. The walls are made of squared and coursed limestone, featuring canted coping. They enclose an area of medieval parkland and extend for approximately 14.5 kilometers. Blenheim Park is also recognized in the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I.
Local climate
Park Walls, Surrounding Blenheim Park receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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