Armley Prison: Revetment Wall on East Side of Gloucester Terrace is a Grade II* listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 October 1994. Wall. 7 related planning applications.
Armley Prison: Revetment Wall on East Side of Gloucester Terrace
- WRENN ID
- distant-flint-primrose
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds West and Pudsey MP: Rachel Reeves (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1994
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Armley Prison: Revetment Wall on East Side of Gloucester Terrace, LS12 2TJ
- OS grid reference
- SE 280 333
- Coordinates
- 53.79601, -1.57547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The revetment wall on the east side of Gloucester Terrace, part of Armley Prison, was constructed around 1847 by William Perkin and Elisha Backhouse. It is made of coursed rock-faced gritstone with ashlar coping. The wall is approximately 150 meters long and currently stands at a height of 3 to 4 meters, although it was originally taller due to the raising of the road level. Features include octagonal bollards with large moulded flat capstones, a crenellated parapet, sloping buttresses, and a blocked chamfered archway located to the right of the center. This wall is depicted in a drawing on Rapkin's Map of Leeds from 1850.
Local climate
Armley Prison: Revetment Wall on East Side of Gloucester Terrace receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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