Curtain Wall Gateway and Chapel to South West of Rodborough Fort is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. Fortification.
Curtain Wall Gateway and Chapel to South West of Rodborough Fort
- WRENN ID
- sunken-quoin-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- Fortification
- OS grid reference
- SO 848 040
- Coordinates
- 51.73502, -2.22038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The curtain wall, gateway, and chapel located to the southwest of Rodborough Fort were built in 1761, with the chapel likely added around 1870. Constructed from random rock-faced rubble limestone with ashlar dressings, this structure forms three sides of a courtyard adjacent to the house at Rodborough Fort.
The main elevation facing southwest features a large, four-centred arched gateway with plank doors, flanked by a tall square turret on the right and a lower circular turret on the left. This section of the curtain wall has a machicolated and crenellated parapet. To the left, the wall continues to a small square corner turret and then extends northwest, stopping short of the house's northwest facade. A section of the wall on the right faces southeast and connects to the house at its southern corner, incorporating another four-centred arched gateway with double plank doors.
Inside the courtyard, a small chapel runs along the northwest-facing wall, featuring four lancet windows on the side and a larger east window with Decorated tracery. The interior of the chapel has not been inspected. This structure is part of a group that includes the house at Rodborough Fort.
Local climate
Curtain Wall Gateway and Chapel to South West of Rodborough Fort receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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