Gateway to Hadlow Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1954. A Victorian Gateway. 3 related planning applications.
Gateway to Hadlow Castle
- WRENN ID
- knotted-corner-laurel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1954
- Type
- Gateway
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Gateway to Hadlow Castle, High Street, TN11 0EG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 633 497
- Coordinates
- 51.22349, 0.33792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This ornamental gateway, dating to around 1820, provides access to Hadlow Castle. It was likely designed by George Ledwell Taylor, the architect of the castle itself. Constructed of cement-rendered brick, the gateway is positioned between the contemporary North and South Lodges and set back from the High Street, facing north-west. It is a substantial triple arch: a large central carriageway is flanked by pedestrian gateways. The design is in a distinctive Gothic style, consistent with Hadlow Castle.
The three arches are all two-centred, featuring moulded arches, clustered shafts, and moulded capitals. Each arch is topped by a tier of narrow lancet windows, a moulded cornice, and a crenellated parapet. The central arch is wider and taller than the others and is flanked by buttresses with weathered offsets. The piers at each end have taller, panelled buttresses rising to steeply-pitched finials, the tops of which are now broken.
Local climate
Gateway to Hadlow Castle receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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