Gatepier and Wall to north side of Longport and west side of North Holmes Road, former Her Majesty's Prison Canterbury is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 2014. Prison wall. 6 related planning applications.

Gatepier and Wall to north side of Longport and west side of North Holmes Road, former Her Majesty's Prison Canterbury

WRENN ID
hushed-mantel-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 February 2014
Type
Prison wall
Address
Gatepier and Wall to north side of Longport and west side of North Holmes Road, former Her Majesty's Prison Canterbury, CT1 1QU
OS grid reference
TR 157 577
Coordinates
51.27767, 1.09269
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gatepier and wall located on the north side of Longport and the west side of North Holmes Road were built around 1808 as part of George Byfield's design for Canterbury Prison and the adjacent courthouse. The boundary wall stretches from the eastern side of 45 Longport to the junction with North Holmes Road, where it turns along the west side of North Holmes Road.

The materials used include a stone gate pier and brick walls constructed in both Flemish and English bond. At the western end, there is a projecting stone gate pier featuring a tall recessed panel, a narrower plain panel above it, and a flat cornice. The wall along Longport stands approximately nine feet high in Flemish bond and maintains a similar height along North Holmes Road until it reaches a point nearly opposite St. Martin's Church, where it rises to about 19 feet and transitions to English bond. Some patching is evident on the northern part of the wall.

Local climate

Gatepier and Wall to north side of Longport and west side of North Holmes Road, former Her Majesty's Prison Canterbury sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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