Forecourt Gateway and Screen at Harlaxton Manor is a Grade I listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1952. Gateway and screen.
Forecourt Gateway and Screen at Harlaxton Manor
- WRENN ID
- haunted-barrel-lark
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1952
- Type
- Gateway and screen
- Address
- Forecourt Gateway and Screen at Harlaxton Manor, Grantham Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 894 323
- Coordinates
- 52.88098, -0.67206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The forecourt gateway and screen at Harlaxton Manor were built between 1840 and 1854, likely designed by Gregory Gregory in collaboration with William Burn and David Bryce. Constructed from ashlar, the structure features bronze sculptures added around 1938. It showcases a blend of Jacobean and Baroque Revival styles.
The central gateway is flanked by double wrought-iron gates, with square lodges on each side. Each lodge has a plinth and a heavy plain cornice, featuring a heavily rusticated round arched doorway with a wrought-iron gate. Above this, there is a corniced cruciform pedestal on a stepped base. Further out, larger square lodges rise in two stages, adorned with elaborate strapwork angle pilasters. Above a cornice, diagonally set pedestals support a sarcophagus and a bronze lion with prey. The lower stage of these lodges has a round opening, while the upper stage has a square one with projecting surrounds. The inner faces include doorways with round openings above.
Beyond the lodges, the screen walls have a curved central section, with a plinth, round arched arcade, square pedestals, and moulded coping. This gateway and screen are significant architectural features of Harlaxton Manor, notable for their innovative combination of Jacobean Revival style and Baroque elements.
Local climate
Forecourt Gateway and Screen at Harlaxton Manor sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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