The Old Gate House Including Attached Raised Footway is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. House, footpath.
The Old Gate House Including Attached Raised Footway
- WRENN ID
- buried-turret-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- House, footpath
- Address
- The Old Gate House Including Attached Raised Footway, Kingsford Street, Mersham
- OS grid reference
- TR 052 398
- Coordinates
- 51.1213, 0.93179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Gate House, including the attached raised footway, is a house and footpath dating from the early 19th century. It is built of painted brick, with ragstone on the return elevations, and features a slate roof. The building is one storey high with a hipped roof and a stack at the right end. There are two glazing bar sash windows and a central door consisting of six raised and fielded panels, topped with a pediment supported by console brackets. To the left, there is an outshot with a boarded door. In front of the house, there is a raised pavement with low spiked railings and a central mounting block.
Local climate
The Old Gate House Including Attached Raised Footway sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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