Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- low-tower-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gatehouse, Staplehurst Road, Frittenden, TN17 2DD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 813 408
- Coordinates
- 51.13854, 0.59043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gatehouse is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations made in the late 18th century. It is timber framed and covered with weatherboarding, featuring tile hung return elevations and a plain tiled roof. The building has a four framed bay lobby entry design, with the current entrance located on the left return side facing the road.
The entrance front is two storeys high with a hipped roof and a tall moulded stack cluster at the centre rear, along with a stack projecting at the back. On the first floor, there are two three-light wooden casements, while the ground floor has one two-light and one three-light wooden casement, along with a 20th-century plank and rib door to the left, which is sheltered by a flat hood.
The right return, which was originally the entrance front, now features unarticulated irregular wooden casements. The left return has three hipped wings with irregular wooden casements and a glazed door.
Local climate
Gatehouse 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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