Wonford Hospital Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1998. Gatehouse.

Wonford Hospital Gatehouse

WRENN ID
unlit-turret-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exeter
Constituency
Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1998
Type
Gatehouse
Address
Wonford Hospital Gatehouse, Dryden Road, EX2 5AF
OS grid reference
SX 937 916
Coordinates
50.71438, -3.50644
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Wonford Hospital Gatehouse is a gatehouse for the former Wonford House Lunatic Asylum, built in 1865 by W F Cross. It is constructed of uncoursed stone with ashlar dressings and features a slated roof with a tall stone chimney stack. The building has coped Flemish gables topped with ball finials and an L-shaped plan that includes a porch at the angle. It is a single-storey structure with a round-arched doorway that has a large keystone, flanked by brackets that support a pediment, and a blind arch on the return. Facing the drive, there is a canted bay window with an enriched plaque above the roof, while the side facing the road has a two-light transom and mullion window.

Local climate

Wonford Hospital Gatehouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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