Stretch of Precinct Wall Forming Part of the Diocesan Registry Stretch of Precinct Walling Extending Along East Side of Boley Hill from A Point Immediately South West of the Diocesan Registry (The Precinct Qv) to (And Including) the King's School Craft Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1991. Wall.
Stretch of Precinct Wall Forming Part of the Diocesan Registry Stretch of Precinct Walling Extending Along East Side of Boley Hill from A Point Immediately South West of the Diocesan Registry (The Precinct Qv) to (And Including) the King's School Craft Centre
- WRENN ID
- knotted-quartz-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1991
- Type
- Wall
- OS grid reference
- TQ 741 684
- Coordinates
- 51.38863, 0.50189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This stretch of precinct wall is part of the Diocesan Registry and runs along the east side of Boley Hill, starting just southwest of the Diocesan Registry and extending to include The King's School Craft Centre. The wall marks the boundary of the cathedral precinct that was originally occupied by the Bishops' Palace. It is partly medieval but has seen much renewal over the years. The wall is constructed from random rubble ragstone and clunch, with its height varying between 3.5 to 7 meters. There are four later gateways that have been created in the wall. At the southern end, the wall returns to form the outer and lower courses of a late 19th-century two-storey craft workshop.
Local climate
Stretch of Precinct Wall Forming Part of the Diocesan Registry Stretch of Precinct Walling Extending Along East Side of Boley Hill from A Point Immediately South West of the Diocesan Registry (The Precinct Qv) to (And Including) the King's School Craft Centre 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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