The Balkerne Gate is a Grade I listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. A Roman Roman gateway.
The Balkerne Gate
- WRENN ID
- rough-roof-nightshade
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- Roman gateway
- Period
- Roman
- Address
- The Balkerne Gate, Balkerne Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 992 251
- Coordinates
- 51.88962, 0.89389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Balkerne Gate is a Roman gateway, likely dating from the 2nd century, and is the only remaining gateway in the town wall. It is a remarkable monument and the best preserved Roman gateway in the country, as well as the largest, measuring 107 feet wide with two carriageways and two footways. Although it has been over-built by the Hole-in-the-wall Public House, the north tower still stands at 20 feet high, and the arches of the south footway rise to 13 feet.
Local climate
The Balkerne Gate sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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