Gatehouse and Gate Pier to North Side of Entrance to Leeds Castle Grounds is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Gatehouse.
Gatehouse and Gate Pier to North Side of Entrance to Leeds Castle Grounds
- WRENN ID
- iron-cupola-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Gatehouse and Gate Pier to North Side of Entrance to Leeds Castle Grounds, Lower Broomfield Road, Broomfield and Kingswood
- OS grid reference
- TQ 841 531
- Coordinates
- 51.24782, 0.63743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse and gate pier located on the north side of the entrance to the Leeds Castle grounds was built in the early 20th century. It is constructed from roughly coursed stone and features a plain tile roof. The building stands two storeys tall on a plinth and includes a plat band and a slightly coved stone cornice. The roof is pyramidal with a central stone chimney.
The facade has a regular arrangement of windows, with one two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window on each floor, the first-floor window breaking through the eaves. There is also a small rectangular light on the gate elevation facing the road. The main entrance on the south elevation features a ribbed door set within a rectangular stone architrave, topped by a rectangular fanlight. This entrance is accessed by two steps with an iron handrail. Decorative rainwater heads are present on the building.
A wall extends at right angles to the gatehouse, leading to a stone gate pier that is taller than the wall. The pier has a moulded plinth and cornice, with fillets on each side and scroll detailing down to the wall. It is topped with a gadrooned urn. The interior of the gatehouse has not been inspected.
Local climate
Gatehouse and Gate Pier to North Side of Entrance to Leeds Castle Grounds sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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