Gatehouse 120 Metres North East of Kirkleatham Hall Farm is a Grade II* listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. Gatehouse.

Gatehouse 120 Metres North East of Kirkleatham Hall Farm

WRENN ID
small-steeple-sorrel
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Redcar and Cleveland
Constituency
Redcar MP: Anna Turley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1952
Type
Gatehouse
OS grid reference
NZ 596 220
Coordinates
54.58976, -1.07916
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gatehouse, located 120 meters northeast of Kirkleatham Hall Farm, is an ornamental structure built around 1780, possibly designed by John Carr. It is constructed of dressed sandstone with a brick inner layer in the towers, although the roofs are missing. The gatehouse features a Gothick style with two octagonal, two-storey towers connected by a bridge, creating an elliptical-headed opening with an archivolt and roll-moulded imposts that extend as string courses.

On the west face of each tower, there are blocked pointed chamfered doorways beneath hoodmoulds and blocked cusped ogee-headed windows on the first floor. The ground floor of the flanking faces displays blind cross-arrowloops. The bridge is adorned with blind quatrefoils in lozenge-shaped panels. A continuous coved cornice and an embattled parapet with merlons and embrasures are partly missing. The returns feature arrowloops on the first floor.

The east face mirrors the west face but includes blind windows with blocked trefoil openings in the tympana on the ground floor. Imitation cannon barrels project from square spandrel panels of the hollow-chamfered, roll-moulded central opening, which has an inner moulded order in the arch's head. Inside, the north tower contains remnants of a newel stair, while the south tower has remains of a vaulted ceiling in the ground-floor chamber. At the time of the last survey, the gatehouse was disused and in a dilapidated state. It was situated on the former driveway to Kirkleatham Hall, which was demolished in 1955.

Local climate

Gatehouse 120 Metres North East of Kirkleatham Hall Farm receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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