Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 10 Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 2 Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 25 is a Grade I listed building in the Lincoln local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1953. A C14 Wall.
Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 10 Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 2 Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 25
- WRENN ID
- endless-ledge-rook
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Lincoln
- Constituency
- Lincoln MP: Mr Hamish Falconer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1953
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 10 Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 2 Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 25, Eastgate
- OS grid reference
- SK 979 718
- Coordinates
- 53.2347, -0.53338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The close wall and tower located in the gardens of numbers 2, 10, and 25 Minster Yard in Lincoln date from 1316 to 1321 and were constructed for Chancellor Antony Bek. The structure features an ashlar facing on a rubble core and has a slightly curved plan. The coping was covered in ivy at the time of the survey. The wall is approximately 60 meters long and includes a square tower with three stages, a crenellated parapet, crosslets, and a taller square turret on the west side. This building is part of an extension of the Cathedral Close wall designed to enlarge the garden of The Chancery at number 11 Minster Yard. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 10 Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 2 Close Wall and Tower in the Garden of Number 25 receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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