Wall and archway adjoining Bishopthorpe Palace to right is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Wall and archway.
Wall and archway adjoining Bishopthorpe Palace to right
- WRENN ID
- patient-cellar-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Wall and archway
- OS grid reference
- SE 597 477
- Coordinates
- 53.9228, -1.092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall and archway adjoining Bishopthorpe Palace were built around 1763-1765 by Peter Atkinson for Archbishop Drummond. Constructed from magnesian limestone ashlar, the structure is L-shaped, approximately 2 metres high and 20 metres long. It features a round-headed archway with a moulded surround, topped by an ogee-headed hood-mould that has finials and head stops. There are cross-shaped slits on either side of the archway, and the wall is embattled.
Local climate
Wall and archway adjoining Bishopthorpe Palace to right 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings