The Roper Gate is a Grade II* listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. A Post-Medieval Gateway. 3 related planning applications.
The Roper Gate
- WRENN ID
- outer-tower-twilight
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gateway
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- The Roper Gate, St Dunstan's Street, CT2 8BH
- OS grid reference
- TR 143 582
- Coordinates
- 51.28335, 1.07226
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roper Gate is a 16th-century red brick archway located on the northeast side of St Dunstan's Street. This gateway once provided access to Place House, the residence of Margaret Roper, the daughter of Sir Thomas More, and the Roper family. It features a crow-stepped gable above, which contains a window with three arched lights, two of which are now blocked, along with brick mullions and a blocked circular opening above. The gateway has a large four-centre arch with double wooden doors and a brick hoof-mould above.
Local climate
The Roper Gate 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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