Gateway and Wall to Palace Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. Gateway, wall.
Gateway and Wall to Palace Gardens
- WRENN ID
- fossil-cobalt-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- Gateway, wall
- Address
- Gateway and Wall to Palace Gardens, Mill Street, ME15 6YE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 758 555
- Coordinates
- 51.27159, 0.52005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway and wall to Palace Gardens, dated 1888, are constructed from Kentish ragstone. The gateway features a semi-circular arch with a shell-shaped keystone above it. A date stone is positioned above the arch and is flanked by decorative swags. To the left, there is a ragstone wall approximately 7 feet high. This structure is located to the northwest of the Archbishop's Palace and is part of a group that includes several notable buildings and walls surrounding the area.
Local climate
Gateway and Wall to Palace Gardens sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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