St John's Abbey Gatehouse is a Grade I listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1971. A Later C15 (with C17 rebuilding) Gatehouse.
St John's Abbey Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- tilted-string-mist
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1971
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- St John's Abbey Gatehouse, St John's Green
- OS grid reference
- TL 997 247
- Coordinates
- 51.88555, 0.90135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's Abbey Gatehouse is the only remaining part of the Abbey of St John the Baptist, which was founded as a late Benedictine establishment in the 11th century. The gatehouse was constructed in the later 15th century and consists of two storeys made of rubble and brick, faced with knapped flint work set in stone panels that feature cusped heads. The front of the building has two octagonal turrets on either side, and the gate hall is topped with a ribbed stone vault roof. The rear section of the gatehouse was rebuilt in 17th century brick following damage sustained during the siege of 1648.
Local climate
St John's Abbey Gatehouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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