The Gate House at the Archbishop's Palace is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. A Medieval Gatehouse.
The Gate House at the Archbishop's Palace
- WRENN ID
- rough-eave-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Gate House at the Archbishop's Palace, Old Palace Gardens, Mill Street, ME15 6YE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 759 554
- Coordinates
- 51.27138, 0.52114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gate House at the Archbishop's Palace is a small medieval stone building dating from the 13th and 14th centuries. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a tiled roof. The building has three trefoil-headed lancet windows along with some modern windows. On the east side, there is a gable with timbering, and a garderobe projection is located on the north side. This structure is part of a group that includes the Gateway and Wall to Palace Gardens, the Wall to the north-west of the Archbishop's Palace, the Archbishop's Palace itself, the Wall to the east of the Archbishop's Palace, the Dungeons at the Archbishop's Palace, the Len Bridge, the Tithe Barn, the Parish Church of All Saints, the Wall to the north and west of All Saints Church, the College Gateway, the College Tower, the Master's House, the Master's Tower, and the Cutbush Almshouses and the Ruined Gateway.
Local climate
The Gate House at the Archbishop's Palace sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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