Gatehouse at the Castle Inn is a Grade II* listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1952. Gatehouse.
Gatehouse at the Castle Inn
- WRENN ID
- late-pilaster-burdock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1952
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Gatehouse at the Castle Inn, Radway
- OS grid reference
- SP 373 474
- Coordinates
- 52.12382, -1.45547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gatehouse at The Castle Inn, formerly known as Edge Hill Tower, was designed by Sanderson Miller for himself around 1746-1747. It is built from ironstone ashlar in a castellated Gothick style and consists of two storeys with three-storey turrets. The front of the gatehouse is partly below road level and is obscured by a later causeway across a blocked archway, featuring three bays.
On the left, there is a square turret with machicolations and moulded battlements, while small lancet windows are blind on the front. The lower truncated turret on the right, which likely resembled the left turret originally, has a single-pitch roof sloping to the right. An arched gateway in the center contains a plank door with shields above it.
At the rear, there is a two-storey recessed archway, and large stone brackets on either side once supported a bridge to The Castle Inn. The central arched doorway leads to a vaulted chamber. The turrets have chamfered plinths and feature blind cross slit windows and lancets above. The inner faces of the turrets have arched doorways on the ground and second floors. This gatehouse was part of the Castle, also referred to as Edgehill Tower.
Local climate
Gatehouse at the Castle Inn receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings