Gatehouse About 25 Yards North-North-West of Butthouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1953. A C16 Gatehouse.
Gatehouse About 25 Yards North-North-West of Butthouse
- WRENN ID
- pitched-soffit-river
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1953
- Type
- Gatehouse
- OS grid reference
- SO 441 488
- Coordinates
- 52.13494, -2.81702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse, located about 25 yards north-north-west of Butthouse, is a Grade II* listed building. It features a ground floor with a sandstone rubble plinth, timber-frame construction, plaster infill, and a tiled cross-gabled roof. The structure has a square plan oriented north-north-west to south-south-east and stands two storeys tall.
On the north elevation, there is a central blocked 2-light mullioned and transomed window in the jettied first storey. Above this window, two round-headed panels are decorated with acanthus motifs, cartouches, and strawberry designs, with the left panel displaying a date. Flanking the window and panels are two pairs of lozenge-shaped panels. The scrolled bargeboards are adorned with dragons over carved brackets. The ground floor features a wide nail-studded low door, which includes a subsidiary segmentally headed door.
The south elevation mirrors these details but includes a shuttered moulded first-floor oriel supported by three shaped brackets and a mid-20th century door. The bressummer has an attached board with scrolls and dragons, likely a re-used bargeboard, and there is a nesting ledge above the oriel. The corner posts of the ground floor display remnants of rope designs, and above them are dragon beams. Inside, the dragon beams feature lamb's tongue run-out chamfer stops.
Local climate
Gatehouse About 25 Yards North-North-West of Butthouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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