Gate House at Longstowe Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Gatehouse.
Gate House at Longstowe Hall
- WRENN ID
- broken-moat-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Gate House at Longstowe Hall, Old North Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 311 555
- Coordinates
- 52.1827, -0.08284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gate House at Longstowe Hall is a gatehouse built around 1912 by Sir John Simpson. It is constructed of brick with a plain tiled roof. The central feature is a round-headed carriageway arch, which has stone dressings and is supported by rusticated pilasters. This arch is flanked by two gabled ranges that are connected above the carriageway. The building has two storeys, and each gable end features a casement window on each storey.
Local climate
Gate House at Longstowe Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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