Rochester City Walls is a Grade I listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1950. A C13 and C14 City walls.
Rochester City Walls
- WRENN ID
- under-courtyard-tarn
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- City walls
- OS grid reference
- TQ 743 683
- Coordinates
- 51.38737, 0.50468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rochester City Walls are historic city walls primarily from the 13th and 14th centuries, incorporating Roman remains, with later repairs and partial rebuilding. There are four surviving sections:
The first section, off The Common, runs north to south for about 30 meters and is in a fragmentary state with little facing stone remaining, with some parts supporting later structures.
The second section, off Free School Lane, is the most impressive and well-preserved, featuring a northeast circular bastion that is two stories high and has three lancets in the upper stage. The upper courses of the attached wall are mostly rebuilt, but a short stretch still has coped merlons.
The third section, which encloses the City Ditch, was rebuilt when the city walls were extended further out in the mid-14th century and retains a much-reduced southeast bastion.
The fourth section, off St Margaret's Street, is short and has undergone significant renewal. The walls are designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Rochester City Walls sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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