Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. A C18 Gate lodge. 1 related planning application.
Gate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-gateway-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1986
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- Gate Cottage, Nonington, CT15 7JA
- OS grid reference
- TR 256 506
- Coordinates
- 51.21026, 1.23
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gate Cottage is a 18th-century gate lodge located in Nonington. It is constructed of painted brick with flint dressings and features a thatched roof. The building is one storey high with an attic, and it has a flint plinth and flint rusticated quoins. The hipped roof has a brick dogtooth cornice and a central stack.
At the front, there is a projecting central hipped porch flanked by round-headed wooden casements. The porch has a central boarded door topped with a semi-circular fanlight. The return elevations also feature semi-circular headed window openings, all of which are surrounded by rusticated flint. Gate Cottage was formerly a gate lodge to Fredville Park.
Local climate
Gate Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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