The West Gate is a Grade I listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1949. A C14 Gate. 1 related planning application.
The West Gate
- WRENN ID
- far-pier-tarn
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1949
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- The West Gate, St Dunstan's Street
- OS grid reference
- TR 145 580
- Coordinates
- 51.28152, 1.07581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Gate, located at 944 St Dunstan's Street, is the only remaining gate of the city, dating back to 1380. This ragstone gateway features ribbed vaulting and a chamber above, flanked by two circular towers on its west front. It has machicolation between the towers and a castellated parapet. The gate includes loop lights, except on the east side, which has a two-light window with a mullion and transom, along with an iron grill on the first floor. There are buttresses at the northeast and northwest corners, and a stair turret on the north side leads to a first-floor chamber that was used as a prison in the 19th century. The guardroom contains a notable 19th-century fireback, dated 1649, featuring motifs of a lion, Tudor Rose, and fleur de lis. Public executions were carried out outside the West Gate.
Local climate
The West 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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