Former Caretaker's Lodge and Gatehouse, St Bartholomew's Medical College is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1989. A C19 Caretaker's lodge and gatehouse.

Former Caretaker's Lodge and Gatehouse, St Bartholomew's Medical College

WRENN ID
ancient-vault-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Islington
Constituency
Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 June 1989
Type
Caretaker's lodge and gatehouse
Address
Former Caretaker's Lodge and Gatehouse, St Bartholomew's Medical College, Rutland Place
OS grid reference
TQ 319 819
Coordinates
51.52146, -0.09909
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former caretaker's lodge and gatehouse at St Bartholomew's Medical College was built between 1873 and 1874 by Edward I'Anson for Merchant Taylors' School. It is constructed of red brick with Portland stone bands and dressings, topped with a slate roof and featuring a brick stack.

The building has a square plan with a circular stair turret at the northwest corner and a porch at the northeast. Designed in the French Gothic style, it stands two storeys high and has a one-window range. The porch includes short offset corner buttresses, a moulded stone plinth and cornice, and a stone-coped parapet. The doorways on either side have roll-moulded stone architraves set within chamfered pointed arches made of gauged brick. Above, flat arches of gauged brick sit over hollow-moulded stone-mullioned and transomed one- and two-light windows. A chamfered stone arch with a hoodmould features a coat of arms above the porch. The building also has stepped brick coursing beneath a cyma-moulded stone cornice, a steeply-pitched hipped roof, an external lateral stack to the west, and a hipped dormer to the north.

Inside, the porch boasts a gauged brick quadripartite vault and a gauged brick pointed arch over panelled doors with trefoiled glazed panels. There is a newel staircase. The porch connects to a gatepier with wrought-iron gates leading to a small gatehouse opposite, which is designed in a similar style and features a shouldered architrave to its doorway. This gatehouse is attached to the northwest corner of the Warden's House.

Local climate

Former Caretaker's Lodge and Gatehouse, St Bartholomew's Medical College 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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