Wall to Bishop's Palace Walls to Bishop's Palace is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1972. Wall.
Wall to Bishop's Palace Walls to Bishop's Palace
- WRENN ID
- hollow-steeple-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1972
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Wall to Bishop's Palace Walls to Bishop's Palace, the College, Ely
- OS grid reference
- TL 539 802
- Coordinates
- 52.3989, 0.26083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls to Bishop's Palace are a tall 17th-century red brick structure that runs from the west end of the west wing of Bishop's Palace to the junction with Church Lane, extending southward for approximately 147 yards along the boundary with Church Lane. The wall steps down in height from about 12 feet at the north end to about 6 feet at the south end and features a weathered brick capping. Parts of the wall are much patched. Additionally, another wall extends from the southeast corner of the east tower of Bishop's Palace southward along the boundary with The Gallery to the northeast corner of No. 9 The Gallery. This wall is very wide, has a wide tiled weathered capping, and incorporates 17th-century facing to earlier walls within it.
The Bishop's Palace and its walls are part of a group that includes The Chantry, the walls and gate to The Chantry, No. 3, and the wall and railings to No. 3 Palace Green. They also form a group with the Great Hall (Bishop's residence), the Queen's Hall (Headmaster's House), the wall to the garden of the Bishop's residence, the guest quarters of the Monastery, the walls to the guest quarters of the Monastery, Ely Porta, Prior's House (Boarding House of the King's School), Prior Crauden's Chapel, the walls to the garden of the Prior's House, Ely Porta, the barn and storehouse of the Monastery, the wall to the barn and storehouse, and Nos. 2 to 8 (consecutive) and No. 9 (stables to Bishop's Palace), The Gallery.
Local climate
Wall to Bishop's Palace Walls to Bishop's Palace sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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