Bridge (Site of the Sandown Gate) is a Grade II* listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1976. A C17 Bridge.

Bridge (Site of the Sandown Gate)

WRENN ID
tangled-gutter-rush
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1976
Type
Bridge
Address
Bridge (Site of the Sandown Gate), Sandown Road, Sandwich
OS grid reference
TR 334 580
Coordinates
51.27364, 1.34593
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The site of the Sandown Gate is located on Sandown Road. There is currently no visible evidence of the medieval gate that once stood here, as it was demolished in 1781. However, a painting of the gate can be found in the Guildhall, and it is mentioned in Boyes' History of Sandwich, published in 1793. In front of the gate is a bridge that spans the moat, constructed of three brick arches, each two bricks thick, with the center arch flanked by smaller arches. A buttress on the south side shows signs of fractures from traffic. The bridge, complete with its parapet, dates from around 1650 to 1675. The moat at this location has silted up, and the piers are nearly buried beneath made-up ground. Some stonework from the town wall, which was connected to the medieval gate, is visible just beneath the grass.

Local climate

Bridge (Site of the Sandown Gate) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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