Walls to Courtyard and Bridge on South Side of Palace House is a Grade II* listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1987. A C18 Courtyard walls.

Walls to Courtyard and Bridge on South Side of Palace House

WRENN ID
dusk-hinge-reed
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
New Forest National Park
Constituency
New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 June 1987
Type
Courtyard walls
Address
Walls to Courtyard and Bridge on South Side of Palace House, Beaulieu
OS grid reference
SU 387 024
Coordinates
50.81999, -1.45139
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls to the courtyard and bridge on the south side of Palace House are designated as a Grade II* structure. These walls, which include turrets and a bridge on the east side, date from the early 18th century, while the bridge itself was constructed in the late 19th century. The walls are made of rubble stone with some brick dressings on the turrets and feature slate roofs, while the bridge is built of dressed stone.

The courtyard, located to the south of Palace House, is surrounded by walls that rise above a moat extending from the east and west corners of the house. The east wall features a 19th-century stone bridge, and there are turrets at the corners along with a gateway in the south wall leading to a causeway. The walls stand 3 meters high from the bottom of the moat, and on the opposite side, they are 1 meter high above a raised walkway. The turrets are circular with conical roofs and doorways. The bridge has two pointed arches and an offset parapet with chamfered coping. The gateway consists of two square-section piers that support a pair of wrought iron gates.

Local climate

Walls to Courtyard and Bridge on South Side of Palace House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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