Priory Gatehouse is a Grade I listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1951. Gatehouse.
Priory Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- little-pinnacle-acorn
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1951
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Priory Gatehouse, Abbeygate, Thetford
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 835
- Coordinates
- 52.4179, 0.74215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priory Gatehouse is a 14th-century structure located in Thetford. It is built from cut flint with ashlar dressings and currently has no roof. The gatehouse stands three storeys tall, with the north and south faces being similar in design. The north face features diagonal corner buttresses, while the south face has polygonal towers. There is a central segmental arch on both the north and south sides, each with chamfers. The first floor includes a three-light cusped window, and the second floor has a two-light cusped window, both with square heads. This window arrangement is mirrored on the north side. The south-east tower contains a winder staircase. The first floor also has a fireplace in the west wall and a garderobe in the south-west tower, which features a vaulted ceiling. A fireplace is also present on the second floor.
Local climate
Priory Gatehouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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