Palace Wall Fronting Palace Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1974. A Medieval Wall. 2 related planning applications.

Palace Wall Fronting Palace Gate

WRENN ID
stony-glass-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exeter
Constituency
Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 June 1974
Type
Wall
Period
Medieval
Address
Palace Wall Fronting Palace Gate, EX1 1HX
OS grid reference
SX 920 924
Coordinates
50.72181, -3.52998
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Palace Wall fronting Palace Gate is a medieval structure made of Heavitree stone rubble, with later additions of red brick upper courses likely from the 19th century. The wall was partly lowered in height in 1973. It is part of a group of listed buildings in Palace Gate.

Local climate

Palace Wall Fronting Palace Gate receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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