New Walk Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Gate.

New Walk Gate

WRENN ID
upper-doorway-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leicester
Constituency
Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
Gate
Address
New Walk Gate, 16, King Street, City of Leicester
OS grid reference
SK 588 040
Coordinates
52.63132, -1.13207
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

New Walk Gate, located at No 16 on King Street, is an early 19th-century building made of stucco. It stands three storeys tall and features two windows on the upper floors. The ground floor has two rectangular windows and one round-headed window, all positioned beneath a curved cornice. There is a double-recessed round-headed door. The windows on the first and second floors are adorned with cornices supported by brackets, and there is a sill band beneath the first-floor windows. All the windows are sashes with glazing bars. The building has a wide eaves soffit and a slate roof, which includes a large modern dormer. It adjoins No 14.

Local climate

New Walk Gate receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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