Gatehouse and Walls Adjoining to Bishopthorpe Palace is a Grade II* listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. A Georgian Gatehouse.
Gatehouse and Walls Adjoining to Bishopthorpe Palace
- WRENN ID
- keen-spire-gorse
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Gatehouse and Walls Adjoining to Bishopthorpe Palace, YO23 2QE
- OS grid reference
- SE 596 477
- Coordinates
- 53.92275, -1.09346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse and walls adjoining Bishopthorpe Palace were built between 1763 and 1765 by Thomas Atkinson for Archbishop Drummond. The structure incorporates a clock from 1744, a turret added in 1895, and underwent re-roofing in 1978. It is constructed from magnesian limestone with brown stone accents, featuring a lead roof and oak gates. The gatehouse has a square plan and is designed in the Gothick style, standing two storeys tall with a single bay. It has angle buttresses with offsets topped by pinnacles. The entrance features a segmental-headed archway with a continuous moulding on the architrave and a coat of arms above, set under an ogee-headed hood-mould. The panelled gates are embellished with Perpendicular style details. On the first floor, there is a four-light window with intersecting tracery beneath a hood-mould. The gable includes the clock, and the structure is topped with an embattled pediment featuring a modillion cornice. The concealed hipped roof is crowned by an open turret with a conical roof and a weathercock. The rear facade mirrors the front, and the embattled walls on either side have four-centred arched openings and buttresses with offsets surmounted by pinnacles.
Local climate
Gatehouse and Walls Adjoining to Bishopthorpe Palace 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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