Garden Wall and Gateway at Delapre Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1968. Garden wall, gateway.
Garden Wall and Gateway at Delapre Abbey
- WRENN ID
- lesser-brass-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton South MP: Mike Reader (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1968
- Type
- Garden wall, gateway
- Address
- Garden Wall and Gateway at Delapre Abbey, Far Cotton and Delapre
- OS grid reference
- SP 759 591
- Coordinates
- 52.22546, -0.88897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden wall and gateway at Delapre Abbey date from the 18th century. The structure features a red brick wall and a heavily rusticated stone gateway. Delapre Abbey, along with its stable block, billiard room, garden wall and gateway, game larder, coach-house, and park house, forms a cohesive group of historical buildings.
Local climate
Garden Wall and Gateway at Delapre Abbey sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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