Gatehouse and Attached Courtyard Walls at Hamstall Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1964. Gatehouse, courtyard wall. 1 related planning application.
Gatehouse and Attached Courtyard Walls at Hamstall Hall
- WRENN ID
- deep-forge-burdock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1964
- Type
- Gatehouse, courtyard wall
- Address
- Gatehouse and Attached Courtyard Walls at Hamstall Hall, Blithbury Road, Hamstall Ridware
- OS grid reference
- SK 104 194
- Coordinates
- 52.77233, -1.84607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse and attached courtyard walls at Hamstall Hall date from the late 16th century. They are constructed of red brick in English bond, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings. The gatehouse is flanked by a pair of octagonal turrets, each topped with an ogee-moulded cornice and a stone dome. A rusticated semi-circular gate arch with a raised key and strapwork parapet is situated between the turrets. Each turret includes a 2-light chamfer-mullioned window with a straight hood mould facing the gateway approach. Behind each turret, there is a Tudor-arch doorway with sunken spandrels.
The attached walls enclose the north-east and north-west sides of the main courtyard at Hamstall Hall, with the gatehouse positioned in the center of the north-west wall. The north-east wall ends at the south-east with a tower. Near the tower, there are remnants of former buildings that once lined the inside of the walls, including two early 16th-century windows: one a bay window with three lights and the other with four lights, both featuring basket-arch lights and ogee-moulded mullions and surrounds.
Inside the gate turrets, nesting boxes have been cut into the walls, converting them into dovecotes. This site is also scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Gatehouse and Attached Courtyard Walls at Hamstall Hall receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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