Boundary Wall Running from Number 1 (Dragon Tail Cottage) West to Gibson Lane and South to Number 2 (Cedar Cottage) is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Boundary wall.
Boundary Wall Running from Number 1 (Dragon Tail Cottage) West to Gibson Lane and South to Number 2 (Cedar Cottage)
- WRENN ID
- strange-remnant-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Boundary Wall Running from Number 1 (Dragon Tail Cottage) West to Gibson Lane and South to Number 2 (Cedar Cottage), Haddenham, HP17 8AP
- OS grid reference
- SP 740 082
- Coordinates
- 51.76768, -0.92803
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary wall runs from Number 1 (Dragon Tail Cottage) west to Gibson Lane and south to Number 2 (Cedar Cottage). This wall is made of witchert and dates from the 18th and 19th centuries. It features long witchert sections on a rubblestone plinth, with pantile and cement ridge coping along the stretch by Dragon Tail, and tile and ridge tile coping along Gibson Lane. Halfway along the Dragon Tail section, there is an outbuilding whose rear elevation is part of the wall, with the rest of the outbuilding constructed of witchert and topped with a pantile roof. At the corner with Gibson Lane, there are three brick raking buttresses. The height of the walls varies between 6 feet and 9 feet.
Local climate
Boundary Wall Running from Number 1 (Dragon Tail Cottage) West to Gibson Lane and South to Number 2 (Cedar Cottage) receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% 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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