The Gate House Wall and Gateway to St Andrews Castle is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Gateway.
The Gate House Wall and Gateway to St Andrews Castle
- WRENN ID
- hidden-niche-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- The Gate House Wall and Gateway to St Andrews Castle, St Andrews Street South, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 851 639
- Coordinates
- 52.24294, 0.71114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gate House, wall, and gateway to St Andrew's Castle is a former lodge built in the early 19th century, designed in the Gothick style. It is constructed of red brick and features a white brick castellated parapet along with a stone string course. The building is single storey and has a three-window arrangement, consisting of 2-light 20th-century casements that include horizontal glazing bars, set within chamfered brick reveals complete with stone drip-moulds and sills. There are five thin cement pilasters evenly spaced across the front. To the left, there is a panelled entrance door situated in a semicircular-headed rendered recess, which connects to a high red brick garden wall. This wall features semicircular blank arcading and wrought-iron gates positioned between octagonal piers that have stone string courses and castellated stone tops. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Gate House Wall and Gateway to St Andrews Castle 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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