Moat Bridge and Attached Gate Piers at Entrance to Fulham Palace is a Grade II listed building in the Hammersmith and Fulham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1954. Bridge, gate piers. 1 related planning application.
Moat Bridge and Attached Gate Piers at Entrance to Fulham Palace
- WRENN ID
- leaning-spandrel-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1954
- Type
- Bridge, gate piers
- Address
- Moat Bridge and Attached Gate Piers at Entrance to Fulham Palace, Fulham Palace Sw6
- OS grid reference
- TQ 239 762
- Coordinates
- 51.47139, -0.21695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moat Bridge and attached gate piers at the entrance to Fulham Palace are notable structures. The bridge dates from the 15th century, while the gate piers were added in the early 19th century. The bridge is made of limestone ashlar, with 15th-century parapet walls featuring triangular coping. These walls are the only visible remnants of the bridge, which was infilled between 1921 and 1924. Historical drawings indicate that the bridge originally had a 15th-century moulded pointed arch spanning the moat, which itself dates back to the early 13th century. The two Gothic-style piers at the west end are early 19th century and include traceried panels, a brattished cornice, and pyramidal caps.
Additionally, there is a lodge located on the northeast side of the entrance drive, built in the early 19th century. It is mostly rendered to imitate stone and has a tiled roof, designed in an eccentric Tudor Gothic style. The lodge is a single storey with dormers and features an irregular composition. It includes an asymmetrical round tower with a conical roof and a tall Tudor-style chimney with four shafts. The lodge has a crenellated bay window, an entrance porch with a traceried plaster vault and a Tudor entrance arch, as well as square-headed mullioned cusped windows and decorative bargeboards. The adjoining stone parapet of the former moat bridge and the pair of early 19th-century gate piers, made of stone and featuring traceried panels, complete the entrance.
Local climate
Moat Bridge and Attached Gate Piers at Entrance to Fulham Palace sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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