Gateway to Whorns Place and Cart Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. Gateway.
Gateway to Whorns Place and Cart Shed
- WRENN ID
- shifting-transept-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Gateway to Whorns Place and Cart Shed, Rochester Road, Halling
- OS grid reference
- TQ 706 660
- Coordinates
- 51.36829, 0.45011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway to Whorns Place and the cart shed is a 16th-century structure located on the south side of Rochester Road in Halling. It is made of red brick laid in English bond and features a four-centred arched gateway crafted from moulded brick, flanked by short abutments. The gateway conceals a lean-to cart shed from the 18th century, which has five bays. The cart shed is supported by oak posts with short braces, and it has a hipped roof covered with plain tiles.
Local climate
Gateway to Whorns Place and Cart Shed sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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