Bishop's Gate is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. A Circa 1436 Gateway, porter's lodge.
Bishop's Gate
- WRENN ID
- empty-sentry-bracken
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- Gateway, porter's lodge
- Period
- Circa 1436
- Address
- Bishop's Gate, the Close
- OS grid reference
- TG 234 090
- Coordinates
- 52.63324, 1.30135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bishop's Gate is a Grade I listed gateway and porter's lodge, dating from around 1436. It is constructed from flint and stone and stands two storeys high. The gateway features a large two-centre moulded arch with shield spandrels and a smaller two-centre pedestrian arch to the right, flanked by end buttresses. Above the arches is a central niche for a statue, accompanied by single flanking lights with cusped round heads. The parapet is crenellated and has been remade. Both doors are adorned with intricate tracery. Inside, the structure is vaulted. To the west of the gate is a two-storey porter's lodge, which has two-light arched casements with flat heads and dripstones. Beneath it is a brick-built pointed barrel-vaulted undercroft with a stone doorway. The site is also scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Bishop's Gate sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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