Gate House of Devizes Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Gate house. 1 related planning application.
Gate House of Devizes Castle
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gate house
- Address
- Gate House of Devizes Castle, SN10 1BZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 003 613
- Coordinates
- 51.35132, -1.99667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gate House of Devizes Castle dates from around 1860 and is part of the later expansion of the castle. It features a rock-faced design with a large round tower and a lower square tower flanking the gateway, both topped with machicolated crenellated parapets. The double-gird pattern timber gates are set within a large Norman archway, which is flanked by heavy shafts with cushion capitals. Above the arch that connects the towers, there is a deeply machicolated parapet with a zigzag pattern, and the central merlon is stepped up to display a coat of arms.
On the town side, the gate house has only slit windows, while the side facing the castle includes the round tower with small deeply recessed Norman windows and three larger windows with leaded casements. The ground floor window features a double gabled dripmould, while the others have arched dripmoulds. There is also a round-headed doorway with a dripmould decorated with a lion head at the crown. The square tower has one similar small window on the first floor and a matching doorway on the ground floor, with the door featuring diamond battens and diamond lights. The overall appearance is picturesque.
Local climate
Gate House of Devizes Castle receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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