Gateway at Entrance to the Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1975. A C19 Gateway.
Gateway at Entrance to the Manor House
- WRENN ID
- former-bastion-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1975
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Gateway at Entrance to the Manor House, Apsley End Road, Shillington
- OS grid reference
- TL 120 322
- Coordinates
- 51.97779, -0.37018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance gateway to the Manor House is an early 19th-century structure. It features cast iron piers and railings set on a colourwashed rendered masonry plinth, with wrought iron gates. The design is symmetrical, consisting of two outer piers connected to inner piers by a convex stretch of railings approximately 3 metres long. The inner piers are linked by double gates and rise to about 1.5 metres at their highest point.
The outer piers are square in section, solid, and have recessed rectangular panels, topped with a moulded cornice and an embattled parapet. The inner piers are octagonal in section, hollow, and adorned with pierced traceried panels, also surmounted by a moulded cornice and embattled parapet. Each inner pier features a small moulded panel depicting two gauntlets clasping a ring, surrounded by a buckled strap inscribed with the motto "sans changer". The plain railings are finished with poppyhead finials, and the gates are decorated with scrollwork panels at both the top and bottom.
Local climate
Gateway at Entrance to the Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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