Gateway and Walling to Number 13 The Fort Fronting the Road is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Gateway, walling.
Gateway and Walling to Number 13 The Fort Fronting the Road
- WRENN ID
- dim-gateway-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- Gateway, walling
- Address
- Gateway and Walling to Number 13 The Fort Fronting the Road, Sicklesmere Road, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 863 630
- Coordinates
- 52.23422, 0.72732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway and walling to Number 13 The Fort, located on Sickle Smere Road, is a significant architectural feature built in 1803 by George Byfield. This structure, which was formerly the facade of a gaol, is designed in a style reminiscent of George Dance's work for Newgate. It is constructed in stucco that simulates masonry.
The design includes a central entrance pavilion that is pedimented and features simulated coursed rusticated masonry and vermiculated quoins. This pavilion projects slightly forward and is topped with a heavy blocking course above a cornice band with a bedmould. On either side of the pavilion are 4-bay wings that also have a heavy blocking course and cornice band with a bedmould.
The entrance is marked by massive doors with a heavily barred lunette above, set within a deeply-splayed semicircular arch that has rustications. Additionally, there are end pavilions with simulated coursed rusticated masonry that also project slightly forward, each containing a heavily barred semicircular lunette in an arched recess.
Local climate
Gateway and Walling to Number 13 The Fort Fronting the Road 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 85% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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