Nottingham Castle Middle Bailey Wall and Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Castle wall and towers. 17 related planning applications.
Nottingham Castle Middle Bailey Wall and Towers
- WRENN ID
- narrow-clay-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1995
- Type
- Castle wall and towers
- Address
- Nottingham Castle Middle Bailey Wall and Towers, Castle Road, City of Nottingham, NG1 6EL
- OS grid reference
- SK 568 395
- Coordinates
- 52.95034, -1.15538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nottingham Castle Middle Bailey wall and towers are part of the north wall of the middle bailey and include the remains of two towers. The wall was built between 1171 and 1172 for Henry II. The east tower, known as the Black Tower, was constructed between 1250 and 1270 for Henry III, while the west tower, called King Richard's Tower, was built between 1460 and 1485 for Richard III. The wall core is approximately 2 meters high and 25 meters long, made of random rubble. The site was excavated and consolidated between 1976 and 1978. The Black Tower, located to the east, is made of coursed rubble and is round, measuring about 10 meters across. The King Richard's Tower, to the west, was excavated and consolidated in 1978 and is built of ashlar and coursed squared rubble. It features a canted tower base with a coped enclosing wall and contains a rock-hewn well shaft. These structures are important remnants representing three phases of the medieval castle.
Local climate
Nottingham Castle Middle Bailey Wall and Towers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 17 applications
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