Gatehouse, The Old Palace is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Gatehouse. 11 related planning applications.
Gatehouse, The Old Palace
- WRENN ID
- muted-hall-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Gatehouse, The Old Palace, Old Palace Road, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne, CT4 5ES
- OS grid reference
- TR 193 555
- Coordinates
- 51.25673, 1.14261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gatehouse at The Old Palace, dating from the 16th century, was part of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer's Palace. It is a two-storey structure made of red brick laid in English bond, topped with a hipped slate roof. The building features three casement windows with two lights, each having four-centred heads and stone mullions. On the west wall, there is a four-centred stone doorway, above which is an inscription reading "T C (Thomas Cranmer) 1552" along with a cartouche displaying the arms of Archbishop Parker of Canterbury. A chimney breast is located on the north wall. Adjacent to the cottage is a red brick barn with a tiled roof, gable ends, a hipped wagon entrance, and additional casement windows.
Local climate
Gatehouse, The Old Palace sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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