The Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1960. Folly.
The Gateway
- WRENN ID
- ancient-merlon-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1960
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- The Gateway, Minchinhampton
- OS grid reference
- SO 845 018
- Coordinates
- 51.71555, -2.22535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gateway is an eyecatcher folly that has been converted into a house. It was built in the late 18th century for Sir George Onesiphorus Paul. The structure is made of random thin-bedded rubble limestone and features two round, two-storey towers with a gateway between them. Each tower has three stone Y-traceried pointed arched Gothick windows on the upper floor, and there are two additional windows below on either side of a pointed doorway that has a lattice-patterned door. The towers have high parapets with cross slits and quatrefoils at a higher level, and they are topped with flat roofs. A linking wall with a crenellated parapet includes a large 4-centred archway, which now has a recessed 20th-century infill. At the rear, there is a 20th-century lean-to addition made of concrete blocks, which is not of special interest. The Gateway was designed to be viewed against a wooded backdrop from Sir George's Rodborough Manor, located on the opposite side of a small valley.
Local climate
The Gateway 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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