City Walls is a Grade I listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1971. A Roman City wall. 2 related planning applications.
City Walls
- WRENN ID
- standing-stronghold-crow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1971
- Type
- City wall
- OS grid reference
- SU 858 051
- Coordinates
- 50.83949, -0.78152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The City Walls are an important historical structure, likely built before the end of the 2nd century AD, with bastions added by the mid-4th century AD. The walls have an irregular polygon shape with eleven facets. Remnants of Roman construction can be seen at the base of the existing wall and in the earth ramparts. There are also medieval and later alterations, which are more piecemeal in nature. In the 18th century, a rampart promenade was constructed, and four city gates were dismantled between 1772 and 1783.
Local climate
City Walls receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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