City Wall from Multangular Tower to Rear of Number 8 St Leonards Place is a Grade I listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1954. A Medieval City wall.
City Wall from Multangular Tower to Rear of Number 8 St Leonards Place
- WRENN ID
- vacant-hammer-thunder
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1954
- Type
- City wall
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- City Wall from Multangular Tower to Rear of Number 8 St Leonards Place, City Walls
- OS grid reference
- SE 600 521
- Coordinates
- 53.96168, -1.08657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The City Wall from the Multangular Tower to the rear of No. 8 St Leonard's Place is a Grade I listed defensive wall, approximately 75 meters long, dating from 1250 to 1270. It connects the Multangular Tower in the Museum Gardens to the rear of No. 8 St Leonard's Place. The wall is constructed of magnesian limestone ashlar and is underbuilt in some areas with cobbles. It features an embattled design, with heights varying from 3.5 to 5.0 meters and sloped copings. There is an inserted doorway with a corbelled lintel located near the Multangular Tower. The wall is supported by seven squat buttresses with offsets on the outer side, and one buttress, along with traces of another, on the inner side. A wallwalk, approximately 0.5 meters wide, runs along the top of the structure. The wall was excavated in 1969.
Local climate
City Wall from Multangular Tower to Rear of Number 8 St Leonards Place receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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