Gatehouse to Beverston Castle is a Grade I listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. A C14 Gatehouse.
Gatehouse to Beverston Castle
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-quoin-magpie
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Gatehouse
- OS grid reference
- ST 861 939
- Coordinates
- 51.64424, -2.20105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse to Beverston Castle is a ruined structure dating from the 14th century. It is built from thin coursed rubble with flush quoins made of large dressed stones. The gatehouse stands two storeys high and originally featured semi-circular ends to the north and south, although only a small part of the southern end remains, and the north side has been altered on the inside.
The gatehouse has central pointed archways, with a thin layer of voussoirs above, made from cut chamfered stone. There is a moulded groove between the double arch that would have held a portcullis, and a similar shaped arch on the west (inner) side, flanked by small archways leading to former guard rooms on each side. The upper storey that once spanned the structure is no longer present, and the space is now filled with a later raking stone slate roof.
On the west face, there is a small corbelled out section, and large raking buttresses with arches cut in at the base are located on each side of the west arch. The gatehouse was formerly accessed by a drawbridge over a moat. It is part of an Ancient Monument in Gloucestershire.
Local climate
Gatehouse to Beverston Castle receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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