Gatehouse and Walls to the North and East of the Friars is a Grade I listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. A Medieval Gatehouse.
Gatehouse and Walls to the North and East of the Friars
- WRENN ID
- inner-pavement-azure
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford MP: Tristan Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- TQ 724 589
- Coordinates
- 51.30338, 0.47185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse and walls to the north and east of The Friars date from the 15th century, with some alterations made in the late 16th century. The structure is built from random rubble stone and features a parapet above a plain tiled roof. On the north side, there is a projecting breast that is off-centre to the left and corbelled out from the first floor. The gatehouse has two storeys, with an irregular arrangement of three windows on the first floor and one window on the ground floor. The windows are lattice casement types, with those on the first floor set in chamfered mullioned and transomed surrounds.
To the right, there is a tall, wide entrance arch featuring a moulded four-centred arch within a square surround, topped by a relieving arch. Cross-shaped loops are located to the right and left of the arch, and above it is a much weathered statue of the Virgin with Child. An octagonal stair-tower can be seen rising above the parapet to the left at the rear.
Flanking the entrance road are a pair of random stone walls that extend to the north, standing between 8 and 12 feet high and measuring approximately 110 yards long, with part of the wall being brick-coped on the right. To the east of the gatehouse, there is another random stone wall that is 70 yards long and 10 feet high, featuring a pair of brick piers towards the left end, which flank an entrance that is now partially blocked by a 20th-century insertion.
Local climate
Gatehouse and Walls to the North and East of the Friars 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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